Examples of action words in sentences for Grade 2 students.

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🏃‍♀️ Action words, also called verbs, show what someone or something does.
• ✍️ Action words can describe physical actions (like running, jumping, reading) or mental actions (like thinking, dreaming, hoping).
• ⏰ Every sentence needs a verb to tell us what's happening.
• 💡 To find the action word, ask yourself: "What is the subject doing or being?"
• 💃 Some common action words for second graders include: run, jump, read, write, sing, dance, eat, sleep.

🎯 Practice Quiz

1. Which word in the sentence is an action word: "The cat sleeps on the mat."
1. cat
2. sleeps
3. mat


2. Which sentence uses an action word correctly?
1. I the to store.
2. I went to the store.
3. I going the store.


3. Choose the action word that best completes this sentence: "Birds ______ in the sky."
1. trees
2. fly
3. clouds


4. Which of these is an action word?
1. happy
2. slowly
3. read


5. What is the action word in: "The dog barks loudly."
1. dog
2. loudly
3. barks


6. Pick the sentence with an action word.
1. The sun is hot.
2. She sings a song.
3. The book is red.


7. Which word shows an action in the sentence: "He paints a picture."
1. He
2. picture
3. paints