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How do you identify linking verbs?

If a verb describes the subject, it is a connecting verb. Look for a subject complement to evaluate whether the phrase utilizes a linking verb.

A few verbs can be either linking verbs or action verbs, aside from the three basic linking verbs (be, become, and seem), which are always linking verbs. Using them differently makes a difference. Particularly when it comes to sensory verbs, which can be either, this is true.

Linking verbs usually have a subject complement following them (unless in uncommon situations like "I believe therefore I am").

  1. Today Shane looks fantastic.

Look serves as a connecting verb in this sentence since it describes Shane’s looks. Due to the subject complement fantastic today, which explains how Shane appears, you can also recognise it as a connecting verb.

  1. Shane looks at the specimen under the lens.

In this context, the verb looks is an action verb rather than a linking verb. Not Shane herself, but the activity that Shane is performing is described. Through the lens describes where she looked in relation to the action.

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