Directions: Identify the verbs and verb phrases in the following sentences:
1) Before the Louisiana Purchase, the Louisiana Territory was owned by France.
2) President Jefferson must have wanted information about these interior lands.
3) Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson’s private secretary, and William Clark were chosen as the leaders of the expedition into the Louisiana Territory.
4) A young Shoshone woman, Sacagawea, was living in a Mandan village near Lewis and Clark’s camp.
5) Didn’t she accompany them on their expedition as an interpreter and guide?
6) The Lewis and Clark expedition had followed a trail that led to the Rocky Mountains.
7) Those high mountain peaks must have appeared impassable to the members of the expedition.
8) How could they ever get to the other side?
9) Fortunately, Sacagawea knew these mountain passes.
10) This was the land that she had traveled through as a youngster with the Shoshone before she had been captured by enemies.
11) The expedition eventually encountered Sacagawea’s own Shoshone people.
12) Her brother had become a chief of the Shoshone, and Sacagawea convinced him that he should provide the explorers with horses, food, and canoes so that the expedition could continue through the mountains to the ocean.
13) On November 7, 1805, the explorers reached the Pacific Ocean.
14) Sacagawea has not been forgotten.
1) Before the Louisiana Purchase, the Louisiana Territory was owned by France.
2) President Jefferson must have wanted information about these interior lands.
3) Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson’s private secretary, and William Clark were chosen as the leaders of the expedition into the Louisiana Territory.
4) A young Shoshone woman, Sacagawea, was living in a Mandan village near Lewis and Clark’s camp.
5) Didn’t she accompany them on their expedition as an interpreter and guide?
6) The Lewis and Clark expedition had followed a trail that led to the Rocky Mountains.
7) Those high mountain peaks must have appeared impassable to the members of the expedition.
8) How could they ever get to the other side?
9) Fortunately, Sacagawea knew these mountain passes.
10) This was the land that she had traveled through as a youngster with the Shoshone before she had been captured by enemies.
11) The expedition eventually encountered Sacagawea’s own Shoshone people.
12) Her brother had become a chief of the Shoshone, and Sacagawea convinced him that he should provide the explorers with horses, food, and canoes so that the expedition could continue through the mountains to the ocean.
13) On November 7, 1805, the explorers reached the Pacific Ocean.
14) Sacagawea has not been forgotten.