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Sports action shot of women playing basketball on a court. Text on image reads, "Fast players are good at intercepting the ball." Caption. Therefore "are" can be called the linking verb.

Part of the "Great Grammar" series. Invites students to imagine that they are sports writers for their school's Web site as they investigate the "action" at different sporting events. Uses the sporting events to provide real-life examples for using correct verbs in context. Explains the difference between action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs as well as verb tenses and irregular verbs.

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Runtime: 18 minutes 24 seconds

Sports action shot of women playing basketball on a court. Text on image reads, "Fast players are good at intercepting the ball." Caption. Therefore "are" can be called the linking verb.
Great Grammar
Episode 1
18 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Magazine open to a 2 page article titled, "Amazing Science." Caption. Boy as narrator. Identify all of the nouns in each sentence.
Great Grammar
Episode 2
22 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Interior shot of a museum exhibit with several lifesize dinosaur fossils. Text on image reads, "The dinosaurs in this exhibit lived about 200 million years ago." Caption. About 200 million years ago describes the verb, lived.
Great Grammar
Episode 3
18 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Closeup of a child's hand writing on a lined notepad. Caption. Your writing may reflect your life, just going and going.
Great Grammar
Episode 4
19 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Man stands on a stage decorated with oversized letters and punctuation marks. Caption. Exclamation points are also used in a command.
Great Grammar
Episode 5
14 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Woman speaks directly to camera in a restaurant setting. Text next to her reads, "Nouns, Phrases, Clauses." Caption. That connect 2 elements of the same kind, such as...
Great Grammar
Episode 6
14 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Woman speaks to camera with a slight smile and eyebrows raised. Caption. That are especially confusing when it comes to pronouns.
Great Grammar
Episode 7
27 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Wide shot of a flock of birds flying over a grove of trees. Caption. Keep irregular nouns in mind while we see what's next.
Great Grammar
Episode 8
21 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
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Great Grammar
Episode 9
14 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Man stands outside next to a body of water. Text next to him reads, "What kind? Which one? How many?" Caption. We used adjectives to answer the questions.
Great Grammar
Episode 10
19 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9