Grammar and Language Workbook

Unit 3, Verbs 99

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Grammar

Lesson 24

More Practice with Verb Forms

Exercise 1 Write AV in the blank if the verb is an action verb or LV if it is a linking

verb. Above each italicized word write DO for direct object, IO for indirect object, PN for

predicate noun, or PA for predicate adjective.

LV PN

Balto was a sled dog in Alaska.

AV IO

1. He brought miners food and tools.
   AV DO


2. In February 1925, he saved the town of Nome.
   LV PN


3. Nome was a remote frontier town.
   LV PA


4. Some people in Nome became very sick.
   AV DO


5. They caught a disease called diphtheria.
   AV DO


6. Nome had only one doctor.
   AV DO


7. The doctor needed special medicine.
   LV PA


8. The medicine was scarce.
   AV IO


9. A hospital 800 miles away sent the doctor some medicine by train.
   LV PA


10. The train soon became stuck in deep snow.
    AV DO


11. Dog sleds carried the medicine the rest of the way.
    AV DO


12. Balto led one of those teams.
    LV PA


13. The February weather was brutal.
    AV DO


14. A blizzard blew snow in the sled dogs’ eyes.
    AV DO


15. Deep snowdrifts blocked the trail.
    AV DO


16. The dogs crossed frozen rivers.
    LV PA PA


17. They grew very tired and weak.
    AV DO


18. Balto led his team for twenty continuous hours.
    AV DO


19. The sick people received the medicine.
    LV PN


20. Balto was a hero.