Linking Verbs

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Linking Verbs

Who could forget the time when one needed a person to serve as a bridge ' to another person or to something ? Also , people have relatives and they are connected by their immediate family members to these relatives . For example , a person is related or linked ' to his /her grandfather through his /her mother or father . Thus , the link is the parent for this instance

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same is true with verbs for there are the so-called linking verbs ' These linking verbs are considered to be the part of the sentence or phrase which implies state of being or condition for the subject , [and] not action ( Linking Verbs . To put it more clearly the linking verb is included in a sentence to connect two different parts of the sentence . In addition to this , the linking verb tries to connect the subject to the parts of the sentence to which it is related ( Action Verbs and Linking Verbs . In our previous example of relatives and families , an analogy may be made between the parents and the linking verbs for the two seek to connect two different things or persons . Examples of linking verbs include am , is , are , was , were , has been , are being , might have , been , etc ' which are forms of the verb be ' become ' and seem ' and all of these are considered to be always linking verbs in their sense ( The Linking Verb

It is easy to identify the linking verbs for without these , there would be lesser thought to the sentence if at all . Taking this statement as an example , The blue sky is my source of inspiration in finishing my painting ' would show that -is serves as the linking verb . It links the blue sky to the phrase source of inspiration ' When one is given such sentence , it would be very easy to discern that it is the blue sky is the source of inspiration because of the inking verb . Imagine deleting the linking verb for the statement . It might give a general and vague idea that may be understood by some but can not entirely be discerned

The linking verb may be used for three instances , which is to link the subject with a noun , a pronoun , or an adjective ( Linking Verbs . An example of a linking verb that connects the subject with a noun is Ana is a queen of her own dreams ' Could you identify the subject and the noun ? Indeed , Ana is the subject and the word queen is the noun to which the subject , Ana , is connected . Going to the next , which is connecting the subject to a pronoun , a statement that could be used as an example would be The big mansion down the road is his ' In that statement the big mansion is connected to the pronoun his ' and this shows that the big...