Understanding Action and Linking Verbs in Sentences
In this unit, you will delve into the essential concepts of action and linking verbs. Action verbs portray activities, while linking verbs connect the subject to its description. Discover tricks to differentiate between the two types of verbs and learn about predicate nominatives in sentence structures.
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Action & Linking VERBS Unit 2 Week 3 Unit 2 Week 3
VERB A verb is the main word in the predicate A verb is the main word in the predicate of a sentence. of a sentence. The verb tells what the subject is or The verb tells what the subject is or what it does. what it does.
ACTION VERB Action verbs Action verbs- - tell what the what action is being performed what action is being performed tell what the subject is doing subject is doing or or Ex. Savannah Ex. Savannah carried carried her backpack. her backpack. Ex. Tim Ex. Tim climbed climbed the treacherous mountain. the treacherous mountain.
LINKING VERB A linking verb A linking verb links in the predicate that tell in the predicate that tell what the subject is or is like. what the subject is or is like. Linking verbs are often forms of Linking verbs are often forms of be was was, & , & were were Become Become, , seem seem, , feel feel, , taste taste, , appear linking verbs linking verbs links or or joins joins the subject with a word or words the subject with a word or words be such as: such as: am am, , is is, , are are, , appear, , smell, smell, & & look look can also be can also be Ex. The day Ex. The day was was hot. hot. Ex. The students Ex. The students were were happy to have a week off from school. happy to have a week off from school.
TRICKS TO HELP DETERMINE IF THE VERB IS ACTION OR LINKING... Verbs such as Verbs such as smell, determining how these words are used in sentences, try the following tricks: determining how these words are used in sentences, try the following tricks: smell, look look,, or or taste taste can be used as action or linking verbs. When can be used as action or linking verbs. When Ex. The pizza smells replacing smells smells with an = = sign (pizza = = delicious) or replace smells the forms of be: is is or was was (pizza was smells delicious. Smells Smells is a linking verb linking verb in this sentence. Try smells with one of was delicious/pizza is is delicious) *If you can replace the verb with am, is, are, was, were, or an equals sign (and it makes sense), then the verb is linking. Ex. He smells sentence because we wouldn t say He = = the cookies baking in the oven or He is/was is/was the cookies baking in the oven. smells the cookies baking in the oven. Smells Smells is an action verb action verb in this
PREDICATE NOMINATIVE A predicate nominative (PN) predicate nominative (PN) is a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb follows a linking verb and identifies or explains the subject. Ex Ex. Sophie is is my best friend friend.. (friend friend is a PN identifying Sophie) Ex. Ex. Gold and silver are gold and silver) are valuable metals metals. (metals metals is a PN identifying Ex. Ex. Jana became became a teacher teacher. (teacher teacher is a PN identifying Jana)
PREDICATE ADJECTIVE predicate adjective (PA) is an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject. A predicate adjective (PA) *The PA is also known as the subject complement. Ex Ex. Mary was was angry angry. (angry angry is the PA describing Mary) Ex Ex. Dakota seems PA describing Dakota) seems confused confused about the assignment. (confused confused is the Ex Ex. The sky looks describing the sky) looks dark dark and stormy stormy. (dark dark and stormy stormy are the PAs
