Action Verbs List
Action Verbs Action verbs help describe the skills you've used to potential employers. Starting your resume bullet points with action verbs also helps keep your descriptions short and powerful.
Action Verbs List A-z
To help you think about your past experiences, here are hundreds of action verbs, organized by skill area headings.
The Three Types of Action Verbs 1. Intransitive Complete Verbs Intransitive complete verbs are action verbs. The boy laughed. My sister sneezed. The dog barked.
The Writing Process Introduction Writing Task Resource List: What Do You. Action Verbs to Describe Skills, Jobs, and Accomplishments in Employment. An action verb can express something that a person, animal or even object can do. To determine if a word is an action verb, look at the sentence and ask yourself if the word is describing something someone can do or something someone can be or feel.
Did you know that the prefix in- means not? That is a helpful tidbit when it comes to understanding this verb type. INTRANSitive complete verbs do NOT TRANSfer action to anyone or anything. They show action, but they are complete all by themselves. Notice that the boy didn't laugh something, and he was not laughed.
That would be strange. My sister didn't sneeze something* (that would be gross), and she was not sneezed. * True (Yucky) Story When I was in second grade, Mr. Penny was reading us one of The Boxcar Children books during story time. I was completely engrossed in the story when suddenly Leah Krentz accidentally sneezed apple onto my leg. She sneezed apple. That was gross, and in that case, sneezed was a transitive active verb.