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English Language: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Grade 3 Language - Verbs 2 (Questions)

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This elementary school English quiz will test you further on verbs. Verbs are predominantly action words. A clever way of finding verbs in a sentence is to try changing the tense. For example: 'The dog eats the meat' is happening now (present tense). 'The dog ate the meat' happened in the past (past tense). 'The dog will eat the meat' will happen in the future (future tense). Which word is changing in the sentences? Eats - ate - will eat. This shows us that the verb is 'eat'.

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If you haven't already played our first quiz on verbs, go back and try that one first. Once you get full marks in that quiz, you can then move onto this one for a fuller understanding of verbs.

Check your knowledge of verbs with this second English quiz on the subject.

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Look at the picture. Your teacher asks you to write a sentence about this picture.
What verb could be used?

[ ]	Shook
[ ]	Twirled
[ ]	Danced
[ ]	Hugged

Look at the picture. Your teacher asks you to write a sentence about this picture.
What verb could be used?

[ ]	Walk
[ ]	Run
[ ]	Crawl
[ ]	Jog

Look at the picture. Your teacher asks you to write a sentence about this picture.
What verb could be used?

[ ]	Trip
[ ]	Jump
[ ]	Leap
[ ]	Hop

Find the verbs in the sentence.
The ambulance raced through the traffic, while other cars moved quickly from its path.

[ ]	ambulance, while
[ ]	raced, through
[ ]	raced, moved
[ ]	traffic, quickly

Look at the picture. What sentence best describes this picture?

[ ]	People sit in the movie theater.
[ ]	People clap their hands after the show.
[ ]	People are happy after the show.
[ ]	People wave to each other in the theater.

Find the verbs in the sentence.
By the time I remembered my coffee, it was already cold.

[ ]	By, it
[ ]	time, was
[ ]	remembered, coffee
[ ]	remembered, was

Look at the picture. What sentence best describes this picture?

[ ]	The woman was at her desk.
[ ]	The woman was not working at her desk.
[ ]	The woman sleeps at her desk.
[ ]	The woman has her eyes closed.

Look at the picture. What sentence best describes this picture?

[ ]	Milk is in the glass.
[ ]	Milk pours into the glass.
[ ]	The milk is bright white.
[ ]	Milk tastes great.

Find the verbs in the sentence.
The kitten tried to catch the mouse, but he was too slow.

[ ]	tried, to catch, was
[ ]	catch, mouse, was
[ ]	catch, was, too
[ ]	mouse, he, slow

10.

Look at the picture. What sentence best describes this picture?

[ ]	Cars drive on frozen roads.
[ ]	Ice froze on the road.
[ ]	Ice is on the cold road.
[ ]	This road is dangerous.

English Language: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Grade 3 Language - Verbs 2 (Answers)

Look at the picture. Your teacher asks you to write a sentence about this picture.
What verb could be used?

[ ]	Shook
[x]	Twirled
[ ]	Danced
[ ]	Hugged

The girl is twirling around by someone else, so twirl is the best verb.

Look at the picture. Your teacher asks you to write a sentence about this picture.
What verb could be used?

[ ]	Walk
[ ]	Run
[x]	Crawl
[ ]	Jog

The baby is crawling across the floor.

Look at the picture. Your teacher asks you to write a sentence about this picture.
What verb could be used?

[x]	Trip
[ ]	Jump
[ ]	Leap
[ ]	Hop

In this case, the man is tripping and falling.

Find the verbs in the sentence.
The ambulance raced through the traffic, while other cars moved quickly from its path.

[ ]	ambulance, while
[ ]	raced, through
[x]	raced, moved
[ ]	traffic, quickly

'Raced' and 'moved' are both doing verbs.

Look at the picture. What sentence best describes this picture?

[ ]	People sit in the movie theater.
[x]	People clap their hands after the show.
[ ]	People are happy after the show.
[ ]	People wave to each other in the theater.

The picture is showing people clapping and the verb should be an action verb in the sentence.

Find the verbs in the sentence.
By the time I remembered my coffee, it was already cold.

[ ]	By, it
[ ]	time, was
[ ]	remembered, coffee
[x]	remembered, was

'Remembered' is a 'doing' verb, while 'was' is a 'being' verb.

Look at the picture. What sentence best describes this picture?

[ ]	The woman was at her desk.
[ ]	The woman was not working at her desk.
[x]	The woman sleeps at her desk.
[ ]	The woman has her eyes closed.

The best sentence has an action verb in it and describes the picture.

Look at the picture. What sentence best describes this picture?

[ ]	Milk is in the glass.
[x]	Milk pours into the glass.
[ ]	The milk is bright white.
[ ]	Milk tastes great.

The picture shows milk being poured into a glass.

Find the verbs in the sentence.
The kitten tried to catch the mouse, but he was too slow.

[x]	tried, to catch, was
[ ]	catch, mouse, was
[ ]	catch, was, too
[ ]	mouse, he, slow

'To catch' is an infinitive. Infinitives can be used with other verbs - she caught, she tried to catch; he ran, he wanted to run; we went, we loved to go; etc.

10.

Look at the picture. What sentence best describes this picture?

[ ]	Cars drive on frozen roads.
[x]	Ice froze on the road.
[ ]	Ice is on the cold road.
[ ]	This road is dangerous.

The picture shows ice that is frozen on the road.