She seemed very happy to see us- what is the verb?

Answer 1

A verb is what the noun is doing. So let's take this sentence and examine it:

She seemed very happy to see us.

Before figuring out the verb, we need to find the noun. A noun is a person, place, or thing, so the noun in this sentence is "she." (Actually, "she" is a pronoun, which is something like he, she it, they, etc. that replaces the noun- the noun would normally be something like the name of the person.) However, in this sentence it's the "she" that's doing the doing.

Now that we have what we need to figure out the verb, and we know what a verb is, what is the verb in this sentence? You need to ask yourself, what is "she" doing? Or, in this case, what did "she" do? She seemed. She seemed very happy to see us.

If you've learned anything from this, then you know that there is another verb in this sentence, in its infinitive form. In this sentence, what is another word that is something someone can do? No one can do "us", and no one can do "happy." So the second verb is see. It's an infinitive verb because it has "to" in front of it, making it unconjugated.

Answer 2

Seemed