Sentence examples for linking verb from inspiring English sources

Nor is the "linking" verb limited to American English.

It is an essentially democratic mode, levelling its elements however disparate to a single plane or stratum, and laconically implying some absent linking verb: buy, invite, remember.

(In Insular Celtic, there are two verbs for "to be," a substantive verb with the meaning, roughly, "to exist," and a linking verb such as "is" in "John is a boy" or "sky is blue").

In one episode the shirtless tribal leader Khal Drogo delivered a monologue for two and a half minutes in Dothraki, with its subject-verb-object structure and no copula, or linking verb.

The translators fell into the trap of "blind agreement," matching the verb to sin or to death, the predicate nominative (which, I explained only a few years ago, in a column you missed, is the noun following a linking verb that restates the subject).

Greek scholars will say that there is no linking verb in the original Greek and that the King James translators had every right to pick an English verb form matching the nearest noun (the singular sin) as well as the following object (the singular death).

First, it reads a little too much like a press release for my liking; there's like three linking verbs in the whole thing.

They're linking verbs, in these sentences at least, so they all take adjectives.

If it weren't for copular verbs, often called linking verbs, you couldn't say, "I am happy". You would have to say "I am happily". You couldn't say, "Pizza sounds delicious". You'd say "Pizza sounds deliciously". Emily would seem nicely, liver would taste badly, all men would be created equally and coffee would smell well.

If it weren't for copular verbs, often called linking verbs, you couldn't say "I am happy". You would have to say "I am happily". You couldn't say "Pizza sounds delicious". You'd say "Pizza sounds deliciously". Emily would seem nicely, liver would taste badly, all men would be created equally and coffee would smell well.

Verbs can be: action verbs or linking verbs; main verbs or auxiliary/helping verbs.