Practice 1.
In each of the following sentences, a verb is underlined. Prepare a grid. Then, identify the form used and write
it in the appropriate column in the grid. Supply the other forms of the verb.
(1) Rabiah and Syaera walk to school every day.
(2) My sister likes the new house very much.
(3) Children carry heavy bags to school nowadays.
(4) We play football during the weekend.
(5) Hafiz watches T.V with his parents at night.
(6) They helped us with the project yesterday.
(7) My father dropped his key on his way to the office.
(8) Fariz is brushing his teeth.
(9) It has been raining heavily for the past three days.
(10) I worked in that company before.
(11) The naughty boy broke the window.
(12) All the girls had done their work neatly.
(13) Someone has stolen our luggage.
(14) My family and I went to Singapore during the holiday.
(15) The minister will be coming next week.
(16) We had fried rice for breakfast this morning.
(17) That incident nearly cost him his life.
(18) The boys were cutting the grass in the garden.
(19) The brave firemen put out the fire in twenty minutes last night.
(20) She hit him on the head with a book.
No.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)
(18)
(19)
(20)
Base form
walk
-s form
walks
Past form
walked
-ing form
walking
-ed form
walked
hit
hits
hit
hitting
hit
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Practice 2.
Identify the verbs in the following sentences and write them in the appropriate columns.
No.
e.g.
Sentence
We shall sing in the concert.
1
The team has won the match again.
2
You should have become an actor.
3
The test seems very easy to me.
4
I am not happy about the results.
5
The accident was serious.
6
The food here smells nice.
7
The baby has been growing restless.
8
The man would be here anytime.
9
I dare not go out at night.
10
Our team will be playing tonight.
11
I am being optimistic about the issue.
12
No one could have been in the room.
13
The mad man was being taken away.
14
My mother may be cooking in the kitchen.
15
The money could have been kept here.
16
We need not come for the meeting.
17
Have you met him before?
18
You ought to tell him the truth.
19
She does not look nice in that dress.
20
My father is working tonight.
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Modal
Auxiliary
shall
Verb Group
Primary
Auxiliary
Main
Verb
sing
Practice 3.
Study the sentences below and underline all the main verbs. Label the main verbs as action verb (AV) or
linking verb (LV).
(1) The boy rushed out of the classroom immediately.
(2) This bag looks very familiar to me.
(3) We have climbed the mountain twice.
(4) Sita and Mary remain the best of friends.
(5) He has been thinking very hard about the problem.
(6) We should all believe in God.
(7) The noises in the attic sound ominous to me.
(8) She fell ill on her return from her overseas trip.
(9) The milk will definitely turn bad overnight.
(10)
The old woman walked slowly into the house.
(11)
The old man stays healthy with proper diet and regular exercise.
(12)
We kept awake the whole night.
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Practice 4.
Identify the finite and non-finite verb groups in the following sentences.
Write F for finite verb group and NF for non-finite verb group.
(1) Ahmad has gone to visit his grandfather in Penang.
(2) The police should have recovered the money stolen by the thieves.
(3) My parents will be hosting a dinner to celebrate their 30th anniversary.
(4) She especially likes the food served in this restaurant.
(5) The hunter fired a shot, killing the tiger instantly.
(6) The Third World countries are beginning to export to the west.
(7) The Government ought to have helped the poor to be self-reliant.
(8) As responsible citizens, we must help keep the public toilets clean.
(9) She felt herself being followed by some strangers.
(10)
They chased away the young man, not knowing that he was their own son.
(11)
Sam, having forgotten his fear, had become bored and restless.
(12)
Wait for the reply is all we can do now.
(13)
Work hard if you wish to succeed in life.
(14)
Being curious, he decided to go out of the house to investigate.’
(15)
Concerned about the safety of his child, the millionaire paid the random.
(16)
Feeling a bit out of place, the guest excused herself and left.
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Practice 5.
(a) Identify the verb groups in the sentences highlighted below and label them as Finite (F) or Non-Finite (NF)
(b) For each verb group labeled, state whether it is action verb (AV) or linking verb (LV)
(c) For each action verb, state whether it is transitive (T) or intransitive (I)
Patient willing to pay RM50,000 for a kidney
KUALA LUMPUR: (1) Desperate to have a transplant, a kidney patient has offered to buy a kidney for RM
50,000.
(2) A handwritten advertisement, put up at the busy Pudu area here, even provided a contact number for
interested sellers to reach the buyer.
When contacted by Sunday Star, a man who picked up the phone said his cousin needed a kidney transplant and
they were looking for a Chinese donor.
(3) “The doctors are very strict about this kind of thing.
Desperate measure: The handwritten advertisement was spotted in a phone booth at the Pudu area in Kuala
Lumpur.
“If you are Chinese, you can pretend to be his relative. There is no chance at all (for someone other than a Chinese
to donate the kidney),” he said.
(4) Malaysian Society of Transplantation president Datuk Dr Harjit Singh condemned the act of buying or
selling organs.
“It is also wrong to say that an organ is only meant for a particular race or religion. Such motives are not altruistic
and should be discouraged,” he said.
He pointed out that the World Health Organisation Guiding Principle 5 explicitly stated that sale and purchase of
organs or tissues from living or deceased persons should be banned.
There are an estimated 21,000 patients undergoing dialysis treatment in the country.
(5) Of this number, 11,000 are waiting for a kidney transplant.
(6) In the past, many Malaysians went overseas, especially to China and India, for organ transplants.
National Transplant Resource Centre chief co-ordinator Datin Dr Lela Yasmin Mansor said there were still no laws
to prohibit the selling or buying of an organ, although it was frowned upon.
(7)“It is unethical,” she stressed.
She said that both government and private hospitals would not go ahead with organ transplants if they knew that a
living donor was not related to the patient.
(8) She, however, did not discount the possibility of rogue surgeons performing such transplants.
Dr Lela added that the Health Ministry was in the midst of drafting regulations to ban the sale or purchase of organs.
Bedi, R. S. (2010, September 19). Patient willing to pay RM50,000 for a kidney. The Star. Retrieved 19 September 2010, from
http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=/2010/9/19/sports/7063
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Answers:
(1) Desperate to have a transplant, a kidney patient has offered to buy a kidney for RM 50,000.
(2) A handwritten advertisement, put up at the busy Pudu area here, even provided a contact number for
interested sellers to reach the buyer.
(3) “The doctors are very strict about this kind of thing.
(4) Malaysian Society of Transplantation president Datuk Dr Harjit Singh condemned the act of buying or
selling organs.
(5) Of this number, 11,000 are waiting for a kidney transplant.
(6) In the past, many Malaysians went overseas, especially to China and India, for organ transplants.
(7)“It is unethical,”
(8) She, however, did not discount the possibility of rogue surgeons performing such transplants.
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