Action and Linking Verbs

Hello and welcome to the short week!

So, today's lesson is a review of some verbo-info: Action and Linking Verbs.

Action verbs show action, duh.  There is a zillion of them out there.

• sometimes you can't see the action: think, know, love, desire, understand - are all verbs.
• Action verbs can be put into two categories, transitive and intransitive.
• transitive action verbs: there is an object (noun or pronoun) that recieves the action of the verb
• ask who or what after the verb - and if there is an answer, that is the object of a transitive action verb!
• example: Andrew threw a football.

• intransitive action verbs: there is no object to recieve the action.
• example: Andrew threw up.

Linking verbs are boring.  They connect the subject to either a noun that renames it (called a predicate nominative), or an adjective that describes it (called a predicate adjective).  There aren't many of them in the English language.

• forms of "to be" are the most common linking verb.
• some of the trickier linking verbs are:
• appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn.
• some of those above verbs could be action verbs or linking verbs, depending on how they are used.

Homework:  Do exercises 1, 2, and 3.