One verb may consist of two, three, or four words; as, is singing, will be sung, might have been sung.
Form verbs by combining the words in columns 2 and 3, and add these verbs to all the nouns in column 1 with which they appropriately combine.
1 | 2 | 3
———-|—————————|——————
Laws | has been | published.
Clouds | have been | paid.
Food | will be | restored.
Health | should have been | preserved.
Taxes | may be | collected.
Books | are | obeyed.
The examples you have written are sentences; the nouns are subjects, and the verbs are predicates.
As verbs are the only words that assert, +every predicate+ must be a +verb+, or must contain a verb.
Be prepared to analyze and parse five of the sentences that you have written.
+Model+.—Laws are obeyed. Diagram and analyze as in Lesson 11.
+Parsing+.—Laws is a noun, because——; are obeyed is a verb, because it asserts action.
LESSON 17.
Select and write all the verbs in the sentences given in Lessons 28, 31, 34, and tell why they are verbs.