Please help with this English question. Pic attached

[redrobininmygarden]

I couldn't figure out fourth verb in the sentence

Was?

Was x

Was 😊

oh yeah, I couldn't figure out. thank you

i don't understand what you are asking; nor the answers given here.

Past tense of the verb ‘to be’

Yes it’s was.

Lol....me neither

It's useful to think of verbs being of being and of action.

It's useful to think of verbs being of being and of action.

Quite a lot of verbs are neither being nor something most people would think of as action though. Have, own, think, consider, decide, interest etc.

i don't understand what you are asking; nor the answers given here.

The OP was asking which words in the sentences in the picture are verbs (i.e. 'doing' words).

*It's useful to think of verbs being of being and of action.

Quite a lot of verbs are neither being nor something most people would think of as action though. Have, own, think, consider, decide, interest etc.*

Well yes.. stative vs dynamic. I was trying not to overcomplicate it though.

Arrgh I used to hate “doing words” - students on asked to think of a verb in an MFL lesson would offer jump, dance, run; as if only very active verbs count.

A good way to think of it is - can I put he or I in front of the word? He happy? No. I movie? Nope. He was? Ah, yes.

Also jumping, dancing, running are not verbs, they are gerunds - or nouns.

Rant over.

Thank you

Just think can you put a pronoun in front of the word to check if it’s a verb “I was, he is, she ran, they had,” etc Was, is, ran, had are all verbs.

I would have thought happy.. because I thought of you put 'to' before it and it makes sense it's a verb.. like to walk, to run, to speak or .... 'to be happy' ?
I was so good at this shit a quarter of a decade or so ago 🤣

I meant a quarter of a century 🤣🤣 as I'm at least 25 years ago.
Oh Christ now I feel old 🤪

**as in 25 years
Oh dear off to sleep now
Goodnight MN

To happy?
or
To be?

I don't know 😴 but thinking of it. Was is a past tense of to be isnt it? I don't know but I can't wait to revisit this with DS when he's older (he's only 2)