Questions tagged [linking-verbs]
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ACT as a linking verb?
I came across a diagrammed sentence in a Houghton Mifflin English (Level 10, Pub. date 1992) book where the verb act was implied to be a linking verb. To simplify, the sentence in essence said, "He acts proud." Proud was diagrammed as a predicate…
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"am/remain/stay" as linking verbs or not
(1) I am here. [linking verb or not?]
(2) I remain here. [linking verb or not?]
(3) I stay here. [linking verb or not?]
(1') I am angry. [linking verb]
(2') I remain angry. [linking verb]
(3') I stay angry. [linking verb]
In the latter three,…
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"to lie deep" vs "to lie deeply" - is "is certain it must lie very deeply" incorrect?
In A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature, of David Hume, it is written:
For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses…
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What is the Grammatical reason of using linking verb + past participle in a sentence?
I found this sentence in a blog post and the poster has used a linking verb followed by a past participle verb form in a sentence, which gives me a bit of confusing. Here is the sentence below:
In hospital, she felt stripped of all her…
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Omitting "to be" after linking verbs
According to a grammar book called Grammar in Use
Before a noun we include to be when the nouns tells us what the
subject is, but often leave it out when we give our opinion...We leave
out to be in formal English.
For example :
He walked…
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Is 'seem' always a linking verb?
The verb 'seem' is a specimen linking verb, as in:
(1) He seems a nice guy.
But it can have a clause as its complement, as in:
(2) He seems to be a nice guy. [to-infinitive clause]
(3) It seems that he is a nice guy. [that-clause]
In (2) or (3)…
JK2
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Can 'fall' be a linking verb?
Linking verbs
do not describe any direct action taken or controlled by the subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_verb
Can "fall" be a linking verb, so that in e.g.
No-one has fell out the window
could "out the window" be a predicate…
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