materials that can be used by teachers

1. 1. o-o oo- -o -o oo -o oo -o --o
RUNNING
2. OOO O-- OO -- -- OO -O --O
SWIMMING
3. –OO O- -O -O-O OO -O --O
DANCING

2. 4. O-O O O- -OO OO -O --O
READING
5. –O O-O --- O--
GROW
6. O O- - OO -O --O
EATING

3. 7. O-- O- - -O-O OOOO OO -O --O
WATCHING
8. O—O O-OO O- -O-- OO -O --O
PLAYING
9. –O-O O-O -O-- OO -O --O
CRYING
10.O--- OO- -- O—O OO -O --O
JUMPING

5. VERB- a verb is a word that expresses an action or state of being.
• What is a linking verb?
Unlike other verbs, linking verbs do not show an action—or more
accurately, the only action they show is merely existing. Linking verbs
simply explain the state of the subject, such as what it is or how it
looks.
Examples:
• I am thirteen years old.
• She seems sad today.
• This place looks like a mess!

6. This makes linking verbs different from other types of verbs like ditransitive
verbs, phrasal verbs, or impersonal verbs, which all describe specific actions. In
fact, you can categorize all verbs into two groups, action verbs and linking
verbs. However, sometimes a verb can be either, depending on how it’s used.
Linking verbs define the subject or add more details about it. That
means sensory verbs like appear, look, feel, smell, sound, or taste can act as
linking verbs when they describe the subject.
Example;
• Dinner smells burnt.
• The cat’s fur felt silky.

7. How do you use linking verbs?
Every sentence has two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is
a noun that performs the action of the verb and typically comes at the
beginning of a sentence. With normal verbs, the predicate describes the
action done by the subject, as with this example:
• Tamara went to the store.
Here, Tamara is the subject, the person who does the action, and went to the
store is the predicate. The verb went, the past tense of the irregular verb go, is
an action verb when used like this. The prepositional phrase to the store is also
part of the predicate because it explains where the action took place.

8. However, linking verbs have special predicates called subject complements that
do not describe the action but instead describe the subject. Specifically, there
are two types of subject complements, or two types of predicates, for linking
verbs:
 predicate nominative (predicate noun): when the words describing the
subject are nouns or noun phrases.
• At college, she became an athlete and a scholar.
 predicate adjective: when the words describing the subject
are adjectives or adjective phrases.
• I was awake but still sleepy when the sun came up.

9. • Linking verb list: common linking verb examples
Permanent linking verbs
• be
• become
• seem
Sensory linking verbs
• appear
• feel
• look
• smell
• sound
• taste

10. • Conditional linking verbs
• act
• constitute
• come
• equal
• fall
• get
• go
• grow
• keep
• prove
• remain
• stay
• turn
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