| A | B |
|---|
| action verb | tells what the subject of a sentence is doing |
| mental action | action that cannot be seen |
| linking verb | connects a subject to words in the predicate |
| verb phrase | consists of helping and main verbs |
| present tense | happening now |
| past tense | happened already |
| future tense | shows something that will happen later |
| irregular verbs | verbs that are not formed in the past tense using -ed |
| direct object | noun or pronoun that receives action |
| indirect object | who or what is affected by the action |
| predicate adjective | a word in the predicate the describes the subject |
| predicate noun | a word in the predicate that renames the subject |
