yes it is the third person singular form of tell.
Use tells when the subject is he/she/i or a singular noun. eg
He tells lies -- he is the subject
The doctor tells good stories -- doctor is a singular noun subject
In the sentence "Shawn tells long crazy jokes" the verb "tells" is an action verb.
Verb
an adverb is a word that tells us more about a verb
No, it's not. It's the participle form of the verb "to interrupt." He was interrupting the teacher and he got in trouble. An adverb is a word that describes (tells more about) a verb. For example, in the sentence: He ran quickly down the street, the verb is "ran" (past tense of "to run"). How did he run? Quickly. Quickly tells me more about the verb.
It tells us at what time an event is occurring/is going to occur/has already occurred.
In the sentence "Shawn tells long crazy jokes" the verb "tells" is an action verb.
"With a stutter" as it tells how he spoke and modifies the verb "spoke." An adverb phrase modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. An adverb tells how, when, or where about a verb. "Stutter" tells how about the verb "spoke."
It tells what an action is.
In the sentence "Shawn tells long crazy jokes" the verb "tells" is an action verb.
An adverb tells more about a verb. An adverb quite often ends in the letters, "ly". Example: The girl ran quickly. "Quickly" is the adverb, and you can see that it tells more about the verb, "ran".
As a verb it would be "He lies when he tells the story." As a noun "He tells lies when he talks."
helping verb
The verb
Verb
No, the word 'skillful' is an adjective, a word that describes a noun (a skillful carpenter, a skillful editor).A verb is a word that tells what the subject is or what the subject does.Examples:A skillful carpenter measures twice. (The verb 'measures' tells what the carpenter does)Marcus is a skillful editor. (the verb 'is' tells us what Marcus is)
No. 'Was' is the verb here. It is a linking verb as it tells the 'being' of the subject.
For is not a verb it is a preposition or a conjunction