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Verbs: discussions and interactive exercises

Verbs are words used to indicate action, state or occurrence. For a better understanding of what verbs are, please surf to the websites listed below. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the definitions, classifications or interactive exercises are located, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page.

[01] Verbs, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar
[02] Verbs, from Grammar Monster (British English)
[03] Verb Forms; Verb Forms – 2; Subject and Verb Agreement, from Superteach
[04] Verbs. from English Daily
[05] Grammar: Verb Tenses, from English On The Run
[06] Verbs, from Interlink Language Centers
[07] Finding Subjects and Verbs; Subject and Verb Agreement, from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuations
[08] Subject-verb agreement, from University of Wisconsin – Madison Writing Center
[09] Index to all articles on verb tenses, from Visual ESL
[10] Verbs, from Using English
[11] Lesson 2 - Verbs, from My English Grammar
[12] Grammar reference: Verbs and tenses, from One Stop English
[13] Index to articles on Verbs; Index of articles on Tenses, from Learning English Online www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)
[14] Irregular Verbs; Subject / Verb Agreement; Verb Tenses, from The OWL at Purdue
[15] Subject-verb agreement, from The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Listed below are links to discussions and interactive exercises in verbs from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the discussions and activities are, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the activities and exercises listed below, these sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

Subject-Verb Agreement - Easy (Keith S. Folse)
The Verb "To Be" (Jack Bradshaw)
Gerund or Infinitive (Kaye Mastin Mallory)
Choose the Correct Form of the Verb (Dawn Yonally)
Misuse of the Infinitives (Donna Tatsuki)
Choose the Correct Form of the Verb (Larry Kelly)
Choose the Correct Verb Form (Charles Kelly)
Choose the Correct Verb Form (Sheri Mercado)
Choose the Correct Verb Form (Cheri Macleod)
Choose the Correct Verb Form (Angel Fong)
Present Simple Negative Verbs (Letitia Bradley)
Present Simple Verbs (Letitia Bradley)
Verb Form Quiz - Gerund or Infinitive (Elek Mathe)
The Library (Karen Bordonaro)
Look, See or Watch (Joan M. Diez)
Going To (Shiela Vioti)
Simple Past or Past Continuous - A Dialog (Vera Mello)
Use the Correct Present Tense Verb (Siti Bilal)
BE Verb - Present and Past (Kaye Mastin Mallory)
To Be: Past and Present (Dan Fulmer)
Irregular Verbs Quiz 1 (Charles Kelly)
Irregular Verbs Quiz 2 (Charles Kelly)
Irregular Verbs Quiz 3 (Charles Kelly)
Irregular Verbs Quiz 4 (Charles Kelly)
Common Irregular Verbs - 3 Forms (Charles Kelly)
What's the Correct Verb Form? (Charles Kelly)
Obligation with Subject Agreement (Jack Bradshaw)
Tense Quiz Using "To Clean" (Jack Bradshaw)
Swim, Swims, Swimming, Swam or Swum (Charles Kelly)
What's the Correct Verb Form? (Charles Kelly)
Phrasal Verbs (Charles Kelly)
Correct or Incorrect - Verbs (vera Mello)
Verb Forms (Dennis Oliver)
What's the Correct Verb Form #1 (Charles Kelly)
What's the Correct Verb Form #2 (Charles Kelly)
What's the Correct Verb Form #3 (Charles Kelly)
Tons of Snow (Quiz on Verb Forms) (Eifion Pritchard)
Go, Goes, Going, Went or Gone (Charles Kelly)
Making a Hypothesis (Miroslava Nikolova)
How to See America - A Verb-Form Exercise (Charles Kelly)
John's Life - A Verb-Form Exercise (Vera Mello)
Olympics (Verb Form Quiz 2) Letitia Bradley)
Olympics (Verb Form Quiz 1) (Vera Mello)
Verb Choice (Carlos Gontow)
Verb Forms (Charles Kelly)
Verb Forms (Dennis Oliver)
Verb Tenses (Vera Mello)
An Accident (A Verb-Form Exercise) (Vera Mello)
Hurricane Quiz (Catherin Rifkin)
Participles - Proposition 215 (Colleen Weldele)

Phrasal verbs
Irregular Verbs Quiz

Past Tense Forms Review
Verb Form: Gerund or Infinitive? Quiz 1
Verb Form: Gerund or Infinitive? Quiz 2
Simple Past or Present Perfect
Present Perfect or Past Simple # 1
Present Perfect or Past Simple # 2
Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous #1
Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous #2
Future Forms Quiz

Present Forms
Present Forms 2
Do / does revision
Do for emphasis
Present forms
Past Simple 1
Past Simple 2
Past Simple 3
Irregular Verbs 1
Present Perfect 1
Present Perfect 2
Present Perfect 3
Past Simple v Present Perfect
Present forms for future
Will or going to?
The -ing form
Passive 1
Passive 2
Passive 3
Imperative 1
Question tags 1
Question tags 2
Passives
Past Passives
make / do (Do or make revisited)
have
Present future (Present forms for the future)
When Future When / if + future
can / could / may
Past 4 (Past Simple)
Past 5 (Past Simple again)
Past 6
remember
Was 2 (was / were)
Won't
Will again

Simple Past Tense – Quiz 1
Quiz — Present Tense, Present Progressive,
and Simple Past Verbs
Grammar Quiz 1 - Easy
Grammar Quiz 1 - Medium Difficulty

Irregular Verbs 1 Quiz
Modal Quiz 1 by Dennis Oliver
Modal Quiz 2 by Dennis Oliver
Simple Present and Present Progressive
Simple Past and Past Progressive 1, by Dennis Oliver
Simple Past and Present Perfect 1 by Dennis Oliver
Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz 1
Verb Tense Review by Dennis Oliver
Learn / Teach Quiz

Irregular Past Tense
Mixed Past Tense

Phrasal Verbs Quiz
Conditionals Quiz
Questions Quiz
Tag Questions Quiz
Subjunctive Quiz
Active or Passive Quiz
Continuous Tense Verb Quiz
Used to do or Be used to Quiz
Future Time Quiz
For or Since Quiz
Verb Classification Quiz
Main Verb Forms Quiz
Have to, Must, Must not Quiz
Can, Could, Be able to Quiz
Infinitive or -ing Quiz
Simple Present Tense Quiz
Present Continuous Tense Quiz
Present Perfect Tense Quiz
Present Perfect Continuous Tense Quiz
Simple Past Tense Quiz
Past Continuous Tense Quiz

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Present vs. Past Participle - Exercise 1 Multiple-choice exercise using the present and past participles as adjectives.
Present vs. Past Participle - Exercise 2 Multiple-choice exercise.

Exercises with verbs using prepositions.
Verbs with Prepositions Exercise 1 (about, by, for, with)
Verbs with Prepositions Exercise 2

Tag Questions 1 Present tense tag questions.
Tag Questions 2 Past tense tag questions.
Tag Questions 3 Present perfect tag questions.

Regular Verb Spelling Quiz

Fill-in-the-blank (gap-fill) exercises with used to
used to - Exercise 1
used to - Exercise 2

Simple Past
Simple Past of Regular Verbs 1
Simple Past of Regular Verbs 2

Simple Past of Irregular Verbs: Multiple Choice
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 1
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 2
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 3
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 4
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 5
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 6
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 7

Simple Past of Irregular Verbs: Fill in the Blanks
The sentences in this group are the same as in the multiple-choice sentences.
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 1A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 2A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 3A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 4A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 5A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 6A
Irregular Verbs - Quiz 7A

Jonathan Harker’s Trip to Dracula's Castle Part 1 Fill in the blanks with the simple past of regular and irregular verbs in this selection from Bram Stoker's horror classic.
The Trip to Dracula's Castle Part 2
The Trip to Dracula's Castle Part 3
The Trip to Dracula's Castle Part 4

Frankenstein Fill in the blanks with the simple past of regular and irregular verbs in this selection from Mary Shelley's horror classic.

Past Progressive vs. Simple Past
Past Progressive 1 [Fill in the Blanks]
Past Progressive 2 [Correct the word inside square brackets]

The Hound of the Baskervilles Practice the past progressive and simple past by filling in the blanks in this excerpt from a famous Sherlock Holmes adventure.

Present Perfect vs. Simple Past
Present Perfect vs. Simple Past 1 Choose the correct time expressions in each sentence.
Present Perfect vs. Simple Past 2 Fill in the blanks with the present perfect or the simple past of the verbs in parentheses.
Present Perfect vs. Simple Past 3 Choose ago, for, or since for each sentence.

Dracula Fill in the blanks with the present perfect or simple past in this excerpt from Bram Stoker's horror classic.
Letter, Mina Harker To Lucy Westenra

Passive Voice
Passive Verb Forms 1 Past Tense Passive
Passive Verb Forms 2 Present Perfect Passive
Passive Verb Forms 3 Present Tense Passive
Passive Verb Forms 4 Present Progressive Passive
Passive Verb Forms 5 Past Progressive Passive
Passive Verb Forms 6 Passive with Modals
Passive Verb Forms 7 Passive with Modals 2
Passive Verb Forms 7 Passive Infinitive with need (s) to

Note: Frame based, You can reach the specific topics listed below by clicking "Unit 1: Word and Phrase Patterns" on the left hand frame.

Lesson 1-1: Verb Identification
Lesson 1-2: Verb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-3: Verb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-4: Verb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-5: Verb Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-6: Action versus State-of-being Verbs
Lesson 1-7: Verb Identification
Lesson 1-8: Verb Phrase Identification
Lesson 1-9: Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-10: Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-11: Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-12: Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-13: Verb and Verb Phrase Identification
Lesson 1-14: Verb and Verb Phrase Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-24: Compound Verbs
Lesson 1-25: Compound Verbs (Continued)
Lesson 1-26: Compound Verbs (Continued)
Unit 3: Verb Tenses and Verbal Patterns
Lesson 3-0: Unit 3 Pretest
Lesson 3-1: Present Tense Verbs
Lesson 3-2: Present Tense Verbs (Continued)
Lesson 3-3: Intensifying The Present Tense
Lesson 3-4: The Present Participle as Verbal
Lesson 3-5: The Present Participle as Verb and Verbal
Lesson 3-6: The Present Participle as Verb and Verbal (Continued)
Lesson 3-7: Remembering The Prepositional Phrase
Lesson 3-8: The Present Participial Phrase
Lesson 3-9: The Present Participial Phrase (Continued)
Lesson 3-10: The Gerund as a Verbal
Lesson 3-11: The Gerund versus The Present Participle
Lesson 3-12: The Gerundial Phrase
Lesson 3-13: The Gerundial Phrase versus The Participial Phrase
Lesson 3-14: The Gerundial Phrase versus The Participial Phrase (Continued)
Lesson 3-15: Phrases: Verb versus Gerundial versus Participial
Lesson 3-16: Phrases: Verb versus Gerundial versus Participial (Continued)
Lesson 3-17: Cumulative Review
Lesson 3-18: The Present Infinitive as Verbal
Lesson 3-19: The Infinitive Phrase as Verbal
Lesson 3-20: The Infinitive Phrase as Verbal (Continued)
Lesson 3-21: Identification of Verbals
Lesson 3-22: Identification of Verbals (Continued)
Lesson 3-23: Cumulative Review
Lesson 3-24: Splitting the Infinitive
Lesson 3-25: Forming the Future Tense
Lesson 3-26: Past Tense Verbs
Lesson 3-27: Regular and Irregular Verbs
Lesson 3-28: Past Tense versus Past Participle
Lesson 3-29: Present Participle versus Past Participle
Lesson 3-30: Irregular Verbs
Lesson 3-31: Irregular Verbs (Continued)
Lesson 3-32: Irregular Verbs (Continued)
Lesson 3-33: Cumulative Review
Lesson 3-34: The Past Participle as Verbal
Lesson 3-35: The Past Participle as Verbal (Continued)
Lesson 3-36: Past Participle versus Present Participle
Lesson 3-37: Past Participle versus Present Participle (Continued)
Lesson 3-38: The Past Infinitive as Verbal
Lesson 3-39: Past Infinitive versus Present Infinitive
Lesson 3-40: Identification of Verbals
Lesson 3-41: Identification of Verbals (Continued)
Lesson 3-42: Identification of Verbals (Continued)
Lesson 3-43: Wishing For the Future Perfect
Lesson 3-44: Cumulative Review
Lesson 3-45: Unit 3 Self-Test
Lesson 3-46: Unit 3 Posttest

Forming the Simple Present Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Negatives and Questions in the Simple Present Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Forming the Present Continuous Tense (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Negatives and Questions in the Present Continuous Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Simple Present or Present Continuous? (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs) (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Forming the Simple Past Tense (Irregular Verbs) (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Negatives and Questions in the Simple Past Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Forming the and Using the Past Continuous Tense (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Forming the Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Using the Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Present Perfect Tense (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Present Perfect and Simple Past (Introduction & 5 exercises)
The Future with "Will" (Introduction & 2 exercises)
The Future with "Be Going To" (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Four Ways to Talk About the Future (Introduction & 1 exercise)
Past Perfect Tense (Introduction and 2 exercises)
Stative and Dynamic Verbs (Introduction and 2 exercises)
Modals: "Don't have to" and "Mustn't" (Introduction & 2 exercises)

Grammar Verb: Tenses
The Present Tense of the verb "to be"
The Present Simple Tense: Gap-fill exercise
The Present Progressive Tense: What are they doing? Matching exercise
The Past Simple Tense
The Future Tenses

Verb Tense Exercise 1 Simple Present and Present Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 2 Simple Present and Present Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 3 Simple Past and Past Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 4 Simple Past and Past Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 5 Simple Past and Present Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 6 Simple Past and Present Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 7 Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 8 Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 9 Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 10 Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 11 Simple Past and Past Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 12 Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Past Perfect
Verb Tense Exercise 13 Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 14 Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, and Past Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 15 Present Continuous, Simple Past, Present Perfect Continuous, and Past Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 16 Present and Past Tenses with Non-Continuous Verbs
Verb Tense Exercise 17 Present and Past Tense Review
Verb Tense Exercise 18 Will and Be Going to
Verb Tense Exercise 19 Will and Be Going to
Verb Tense Exercise 20 Will and Be Going to
Verb Tense Exercise 21 Simple Present and Simple Future
Verb Tense Exercise 22 Simple Present and Simple Future
Verb Tense Exercise 23 Simple Future and Future Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 24 Simple Present, Simple Future, Present Continuous, and Future Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 25 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 26 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 27 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 28 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous
Verb Tense Practice Test Cumulative Verb Tense Review
Verb Tense Final Test Cumulative Verb Tense Review

Modal Verbs
Modal Exercise 1 Can, Could, Have to, Must, Might and Should
Modal Exercise 2 Have to and Must
Modal Exercise 3 Might, Must and Should. Afterwards, you can repeat the exercise using Could, Have to and Ought to
Modal Exercise 4 Couldn't and Might not
Modal Exercise 5 Have got to, Had Better, May and Shall
Modal Exercise 6 Could, Might, Should and Would
Modal Exercise 7 Modal Verbs Forms
Modal Final Test Cumulative Modal Test

Irregular Verbs
Irregular Verbs 1
Irregular Verbs 2
High Intermediate Irregular Verb Drill
Advanced Irregular Verb Drill

Identifying Verbs 1
Identifying Verbs 2
Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses Exercise 1
Using the Passive Voice in Scientific Writing Exercise
One Word Modals
Helping Verbs
Matching Exercise #1: Verb Tense
Matching Exercise #2: Verb Tense
Matching Exercise #3: Sentence
Matching Exercise #4: Verb Tense
Cloze Exercise #2: Verbs
Cloze Exercise #3: Verbs
Crossword Exercise #1: Subject/Verb Agreement
Crossword Exercise #2: Subject/Verb Agreement
Crossword Exercise #3: Subject/Verb Agreement

Note:Frame-based, only one URL for all exercises

The Verb To Be
Past Tense and Past Continuous
More Past Continuous
Present Tense
More Present Tense
Past Tense Verbs
Present Tense Questions
Passive Voice
More Passive Voice
Present Perfect
Singular to Plural
Present Perfect Negative
Past tense irregular verbs
Past tense
More Past tense
Past tense Time Clauses
Past Continuous

Elementary
To Be Gap Fill
To Be: Positive or Negative Gap Fill
To Be Question Formation Worksheet
To Be Question Formation 2
To Be and To Have / Easy Error Correction 1
Error Correction: To Be & To Have - Exercise 2
Error Correction: To Be
To Be - Questions & Answers
Present Continuous Dialogue Completion
Present Continuous Positive and Negative
Present Continuous Gap Fill Worksheet
Present Simple or Continuous Worksheet
Present Simple/Continuous, Past Simple: Letter Gap Fill
Verbs Used Only In Present Simple
Present Continuous and Present Simple Matching Exercise

Pre-Intermediate Level
Present Perfect or Past Simple Worksheet
Present Perfect or Past Simple Worksheet 2
Error Correction Worksheet - Present Perfect or Past Simple
Error Correction Worksheet - Present Perfect or Past Simple 2
"Been" and "Gone" Worksheet
For or Since Gap Fill
For or Since Worksheet
Finished and Unfinished Time
The Old Colonel - Present Perfect Practice
Just, Yet, Already
Present Perfect or Past Simple: George Richards, Film Maker
Present Perfect or Past Simple: George Richards, Film Maker - Interview
"Was Going To" For Past Intentions
Present Simple and Continuous for Future
Will and Going To Worksheet
Past Continuous - Sentence Completion
Alibi Jigsaw Reading
Past Continuous Gap Fill
Handsome Rick (Past simple and present simple)
John Carpenter (Present simple, past simple and present continuous)
The Penguin - Story and Verb Tense Practice
John The Stuntman - Gap Fill Exercise (elementary verb tenses and comparative/superlative)

Intermediate Level
Passive Using "Get"
Passive Verb Patterns
Active / Passive Exercise
Passive or Active Exercise
The Passive – Past
The Passive – Present
Passive General Knowledge
Present Perfect Continuous - I've Been Crying Because...
Present Perfect Simple or Continuous
Present Perfect Simple or Continuous

Advanced Level
Past Tense Worksheet
Causative "Have"
Say / Tell Error Correction
Reported Speech Worksheet
Used To / Be Used To
Future Continuous or Future Perfect?
Contrasting Ideas (Despite, Although, However, etc)
Linking Words

Modal Verbs
Modal Verbs in English - Find the Mistakes
"Must" and "Have To" Differences
Mustn't - Don't Have To Worksheet
"Should / Shouldn't" Worksheet
Should or Shouldn't Exercise
Can and Be Able To Worksheet
Could I? Could You?
"Needn't Have" or "Didn't Need To" Worksheet
Modal Signs
Modals of Deduction Exercise
Past Modals Exercise

Verbs Pop Quiz 3

Verb forms
Verb forms quiz A - C
Verb forms quiz D – G
Verb forms quiz H – R
Verb forms quiz S - Z

Present Simple / Present Continuous
Multiple-choice (plus explanations) 1
Multiple-choice (plus explanations) 2
Fill the gap (plus explanations) 1
Fill the gap (plus explanations) 2

Past Simple / Present Perfect
Multiple choice (plus explanations) 1
Multiple choice (plus explanations) 2
Fill the gap (plus explanations)

All tenses
Random multiple-choice (plus explanations)
Random fill the gap (plus explanations)