Identifying Action Verbs: In each of the following sentences, choose the action verb. - Babe Ruth, one of baseball’s most popular players, held the record for home runs in a single season for thirty-four years.
Identifying Action Verbs: In each of the following sentences, choose the action verb. - In 1961, Roger Maris set a new record over the objections of some fans.
Identifying Action Verbs: In each of the following sentences, choose the action verb. - Maris, a shy, quiet man, hated attention from reporters and fame from his home-run record.
Identifying Action Verbs: In each of the following sentences, choose the action verb. - Mark McGwire shattered Maris’s record of sixty-one home runs with seventy homers in 1998.
Identifying Action Verbs: In each of the following sentences, choose the action verb. - Before the end of the 1998 season, McGwire visited the Maris family.
Identifying Action Verbs: In each of the following sentences, choose the action verb. - Sportswriters looked again at Maris’s accomplishments after McGwire’s sixty-second home run that year.
Identifying Action Verbs: In each of the following sentences, choose the action verb. - Maris’s home-run record stayed on the books longer than any other record in baseball.
Identifying Action Verbs: In each of the following sentences, choose the action verb. - In 2001, Barry Bonds established a new record of seventy-three home runs in a season.