Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

Warriors and Explorers
Two Special Verbs: Be and Have
Verbs

From about A.D. 800 to 1100, fierce warriors attacked parts of Europe. What were these warriors called?

To answer the question, read the paragraph below. Decide if the underlined words are verbs or verb phrases. Some of the underlined words are not verbs or verb phrases. Start with the first sentence. Then write the letter beneath each correct verb or verb phrase in order in the spaces at the bottom of the page.

About 1,200 years ago, warriors from northern Europe . They the countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Today these countries Scandinavia. The warriors sailors. At first they the coasts of Europe. Then some of them They Iceland and Greenland. They even North America. This 500 years before Columbus. Their adventures in stories. These stories as sagas.