State-of-Being Verbs

Here is a little story to help you teach the eight state-of-being verbs:

     Once upon a time there was a nice boy named Stately. He was very prim and proper. Stately was an A+ student. One day at school, there was going to be a big test on verbs. Stately knew all the action verbs but he didn't want to forget the eight state-of-being verbs. He needed a way to remember them so he could get an A+ on the big test. As he sat there thinking of ideas, he found himself humming a rhythm, "Da, da, da-da, da, da, da, da." All of a sudden he jumped up and shouted, "That is it! That is the rhythm I need to remember the state-of-being verbs: Is, am, were, was, are, be, being, been."
    The next day, he went to school humming and clapping the rhythm the whole way. When he got his graded test back he had earned an A+, and Stately was very happy. After he got the A+ he changed his name to Stately State-of-Being Verb because he just IS so stately.

This story is from http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/verb/1state.htm

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