Being Verbs and Linking Verbs

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Being Verbs and Linking Verbs

• Pgs. 129-131

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Being Verbs

• Some verbs do not show action.
• They show what the subject is or is like.
• Verbs called being verbs show a state of being.
• Mr. Wong became our principal
• He seems kind.

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Linking Verbs

• A being verb is often a linking verb.
• It links the subject of the sentence with a word
  in the predicate that tells more about it.
• Mr. Wong feels happy. (how does Mr. Wong feel?)
• He had been a teacher for twenty years.

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Linking Verbs

• Linking verbs link the subject with a word in the
  predicate.
• The word can be a predicate noun or a predicate
  adjective.
• A predicate noun renames the subject.
• A predicate adjective describes the subject.
• Look at the bottom of pg. 129

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Try 1-7

• 1. LV are PN mountains
• 2. LV is PN part
• 3. LV will become PN statue
• 4. LV will be PN profile
• 5. LV is, PA rough
• 6. LV is PA rough
• 7. LV seems PA slow

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Try 8-12

• Do on board