remembering the sometimes linking verbs

[deltagal]

Does anyone have a "Trick" or "tip" on how to remember the sometimes linking verbs? We're having a bit of difficulty here. The words my son remembers are similar, but.... not correct.

[alydar]

Ooo, ooo, ooo! *raises hand wildly* This is like one of the few things that I actually remember from my ps education and I successfully blow away DH when I rattle them off.

We learned them in 6th grade - had a great teacher! This is what she did. She broke them into categories and each week we had to memorize a new category. At the end of the week we would know the whole category. The next week we would learn a new category, review the prior category, and by the end of the week we could name all the verbs in two categories. The next week we would do the third category, add it to the list containing the last two weeks of verbs and voila! 3 categories learned! and so on, and so on til they were all memorized.

Here's how she broke them down:

Category 1
am
is
are
was
were

Category 2
be
being
been

Category 3
have
has
had

Category 4
do
does
did

Category 5
shall
will
should
would

Category 6
may
might
must
can
could

No real tips/tricks involved. Just straight memorization but it helped that they were broken down into smaller bites.

It's fun being able to reel them off at super sonic speed to someone!

HTH!