Circle and Underline

Worksheet Description

The worksheet is a grammar exercise designed to help students understand the relationship between linking verbs and predicate adjectives. It provides sentences where the student must identify and mark the linking verb and the predicate adjective that describes the subject. The instructions are clear, directing students to circle the linking verb and underline the predicate adjective in each sentence. This activity includes a variety of simple sentences, each with a subject, a linking verb, and a predicate adjective, illustrated with a friendly cartoon character to make the exercise visually appealing.

This worksheet educates students on the concept that linking verbs, unlike action verbs, serve to connect the subject of a sentence to additional information about the subject’s identity or state. It teaches students to recognize linking verbs and understand how they work in conjunction with predicate adjectives to describe the subject without expressing a direct action. The task of circling and underlining helps reinforce this grammar point by engaging students in actively distinguishing these two parts of speech within the context of a sentence. Through this exercise, students enhance their ability to analyze sentence structure and improve their grammatical knowledge.