| A | B |
| verb | expresses action, condition, or state of being |
| hiked/were/has been finished | verb |
| action verb | expresses an action |
| drove | action verb |
| transitive verb | verb that can take a direct object |
| locked (the door/the lock/the wheels) | transitive verb |
| intransitive | verb that cannot take an object |
| snored (no object) | intransitive verb |
| linking verb | links a word in the predicate to the subject |
| predicate | tells what the subject is or does or what happened to the subject |
| were | linking verb |
| auxillary verb | helping verb; combines with other verbs to make verb phrases |
| be/have/do | auxillary verb |
| verb phrase | verb + helping verb; used to express a particular tense or indicate an action is directed at the subject |
| has been chopped/will be | verb phrase |