1. Verbs!

• Averbdescribes what a noun is doing.

2. Verbsare about action (body or mind) or states of being 3. They can exist in the present, past, or future 4. Present : I write for an online magazine. 5. Past : Brett sang for the band. 6. Future : Jason will do vocals at the band reunion next year.

7. Verbs!

We will talk more about this when we discusssubject/verb agreement , but subjects and verbs need to agree. 8. See the pronoun chart on the course wiki 9. Theperson of the verbis who is doing the action. 10. They can be in the first, second, or third person. 11. First : I will require 750 words for the first paper. 12. Second : You will print the new issue. 13. Third : She is going to buy a plant.

14. Verb Voice

Verbscan take on two kinds of voice:activeandpassive . 15. With very few exceptions, your writing should be in theactive voice . 16. Active voicemeans that the subject of the sentence is performing the action described by theverb . 17. Marc plays bass for the band. 18. Passive voicemeans the action described by theverbis performed on the subject. 19. The bass was played by Russ.

20. Verb Tenses

Professor Wend is going to put together a verb tense chart for the course wiki. (See page 494 in The DK Handbook) 21. See the the verbs page on the wiki for more notes about verbs.

22. Group Work

Get in your groups... 23. Write a sentence each for present/past/future tense about the status of your process analysis paper. 24. Write a sentence each for first/second/third person about the current semester. 25. Write TWO sentences each for active and passive voice about a sport.