Who/what is "verbing"?
Linking Verbs are followed by one of these.
OR
Which Type of verb is it?
ACTION
Needs an Object to complete the thought.
Sometimes it is preceded by
INTRANSITIVE
IDENTIFYING the PARTS of a SENTENCE
Beware of the OOPs!
(Object of a Preposition)
First figure out what is happening in the sentence. That will be the
BEWARE of ADVERBS!!!
Adverbs answer the questions When? Where? How? and To What Extent?
In Contractions, N'T is short for the adverb NOT, and is NOT part of the verb phrase.
VERB
SUBJECT
Does it have any Helping Verbs?
LINKING
It doesn’t happen to anything; it just happens.
Action Verbs express what is happening, what is about to happen, or what did happen.
Linking Verbs express a state of being rather than action. Such verbs are called linking verbs, because they link a subject to a word in the predicate. They either are or may be replaced by form of the verb To Be.
TO BE
Am, Are, Is
Was, Were
Be, Been, Being
Other Common Linking Verbs
Feel, Taste, Look, Smell, Sound,
Appear, Seem, Grow,
Become, Equal, Remain
TRANSITIVE
PN
&PP
PA
Direct Object
Predicate
Noun/Pronoun
Predicate Adjective
The Direct Object gets
"verbed"
Indirect Object
The Indirect Object gets the Direct Object.
DO
identifies subject as
a specific noun or pronoun
tells which one, what
kind of , how much, or
how many the subject is.
IO