1 The cake smells good.

Few examples of linking verb. All forms of the verb be are always linking. 2 For other verbs if you can replace the verb with a form of be and the sentence makes sense you have a linking verb. Action verbs are different from linking verbs which we can think of as states of being verbs.

The crowd is becoming restless. She is the boss. Underline the linking verbs in the following sentences.

In the sentence is is the linking verb that connects the complement the boss to the subject she. Are am is was were etc. 2 My cousins were late to the party.

In the action sentence the subject is doing the smelling. Additionally this total includes about 15 more verbs that can also be action or helping verbs. Alberto was a great philosopher.

Could you say The flower is beautiful. He went red after tripping on the rug. It appears to be a broken piece of glass.

Linking Verbs Worksheet 1. Linking Verbs are verbs that express a state of being. It does not show any actions and is called the state of being type verbs.