Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Aiming for the Stars
Two Kinds of Verbs
Verbs

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union sent the first satellite into space. What was the name of this satellite?

To answer the question, read the article below. Decide if the underlined words are verb phrases. Start with the first sentence. Then write the letters beneath the verb phrases in order in the spaces at the bottom of the page.

For thousands of years, people of exploring space. But spaceflight This in 1957. That year the first satellite into space. The satellite space for twenty-one days. This satellite by others. Both the Soviet Union and the United States satellites. By the mid-1960s, scientists much about space. Many humans in space. The United States land astronauts on the moon. This a great achievement. Finally, on July 20, 1969, American astronauts the moon. Travel to another world Space the new frontier.