Select all that apply. the three important jobs that verbs do are:
express action
show a state of being
connect two clauses
link a noun to another word in a sentence
describe a noun

onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.