A linking verb is a verb that connects or (links) a verb to a noun or an adjective.
example:
I was cold.
was, is has been, smelled, looked, are all linking verbs
Linking verbs do not express action. Instead they connect the subject of the verb to additional information about the subject.
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The key thing about a 'linking verb' is that it is followed by an adjective, not an adverb. This is something that learners of English as a foreign or second language may fine difficult.
Examples
(Some verbs can act as both linking verbs and actions verbs. If used as action verbs they need to take adverbs, for example:
Note that in thse two example there is an action and an object).
Word that describes a person place or thing
Of words added to another verb that make a verb phrase
Word that helps one word in a sentence name or describe another word in the sentence
Oh word the toast with someone or something is doing
A word that tells what someone or something is doing
No. The verb to become is a linking verb, and the verb to be is a linking verb, but they are two separate verbs.
"Did" is not a linking verb.
Linking verb
action, it is the past tense of the verb surround.
The linking verb is are.
No. The verb to become is a linking verb, and the verb to be is a linking verb, but they are two separate verbs.
Was is a linking verb.
"Is" is a linking verb. Linking verbs are used to connect the subject of a sentence to a noun or adjective that renames or describes the subject.
"Has" can function as both a linking verb and a helping verb. As a linking verb, it connects the subject to a subject complement that renames or describes it (e.g., "She has been a teacher for 10 years"). As a helping verb, it is used with a main verb to form a verb phrase (e.g., "She has eaten dinner").
"Was" is a linking verb. It is used to connect the subject of a sentence to a subject complement that describes or renames the subject.
"Was" is a helping verb that is used with other verbs to indicate tense. For example, in the sentence "She was running," "was" is helping the main verb "running."
"Did" is not a linking verb.
"It" is not a linking verb. "It" is a pronoun.
Linking verb
Linking verb.Were is the past tense plural be verb any form of be verb is a linking verb.
action, it is the past tense of the verb surround.
The verb "appear" is a linking verb in this sentence because it connects the subject "girls" with the predicate adjective "excited." It describes a state of being rather than an action.