Question

Which of the following sentences contains a mental action verb?
A) I waved to my neighbor across the street.
B) Naomi ate lunch quickly
C) The students waited for the bus
D) The farmers hoped for rain

Answer 1

D) the farmers hoped for rain.

This is because hoping is an action we do within. It is not a physical action like all the other options (waved, ate, and waited)that you can observe.

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Answer 2

Answer: The sentence that contains a mental action verb is D) The farmers hoped for rain.

Explanation: A mental action verb is a verb that denotes an intellectual process, that is to say it denotes an activity developed in the mind of the subject. In that way, unlike physical action verbs, mental action verbs do not make reference to a visible action. Sentence D. "The farmers hoped for rain" contains a mental action verb: "hoped". "Hopes" refers to a mental process because a person cannot see the farmers hoping. In contrast, "waved", "ate" and "waited" are verbs that denote visible actions.