Linking Verbs PowerPoint Lesson for Grades 3-6
- Grades
- Grades 3–6, Elementary, Middle School
- File type
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Use
- Digital activity
- Subject
- ELA, Grammar
- Topic
- linking verbs, copular verbs
- Resource types
- Presentations, Teacher Tools
- Use
- Digital activity
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What's inside this resource
This resource contains an editable, 60 slide PowerPoint lesson on linking verbs (copular verbs). The PowerPoint explains what linking verbs are, and the difference between helping verbs, action verbs, and linking verbs. It also explains how to determine whether a verb is acting as a linking verb or an action verb in a sentence (seems, tastes, looks, appears, etc). The PowerPoint clearly and visually demonstrates how to identify them.
The PowerPoint also contains a link to a short video on linking verbs.
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Learning objectives
- Identify the linking verb in a sentence
- Distinguish linking verbs from action and helping verbs
- Decide whether a verb such as looks or tastes is acting as a linking or action verb
Skills covered
- Verb classification — sorting verbs in example sentences as action, helping or linking
- Substitution test — replacing a verb with is to check whether it links
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Core concepts
- Linking verbs
- Action verbs
- Helping verbs
- State-of-being verbs
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