Question

Can someone explain what linking verbs are?

Answer 1

. What are linking verbs?
Another way to define linking verbs is that linking verbs do not express action but connect the subject and verb to more information. Some words can function both as a linking verb and an action verb as you will see in some of the sentences below.

Examples of linking verbs
Michael is a football fan.

Is isn’t something that Michael can actually do. Instead, it connects the subject, Michael to more information about him, that he really enjoys playing or watching the ball. So in this sentence is is a linking verb.

The dogs are barking angrily at the cat.

Are isn’t something dogs can do. Are connects the subject, dogs, to information about them, that they are mad at the cat.

Tomas always feels tired when he stays up playing video games all night.

Feels connects the subject, Thomas, to his state of being, tired.

Learning to speak a new language seems impossibly hard at first.

Seems connects the subject, a new language, with something said about it, that it’s difficulty can be deceiving at first.

Answer 2

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