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Verb Types & Verbals Quiz

Action, linking and helping verbs; transitive vs intransitive; participles, gerunds and infinitives. Answer one question at a time and see why each option is right or wrong. Miss one? It comes back in a retry round until you get every question correct. 20 questions · free · no sign-up.

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Sample questions from this quiz

A few examples (the live quiz shuffles options and checks your answer). Take the quiz above for the full set with explanations.

“The soup smells wonderful.” The verb is…
1. linking
2. action
3. helping
“She smelled the flowers.” The verb is…
1. action
2. linking
3. helping
“They are playing outside.” “are” is…
1. helping
2. linking
3. action
“They are happy.” “are” is…
1. linking
2. helping
3. action