Link verbs-Main points

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Link verbs-Main points

• Link verbs are used to join the subject with a
  complement.
• -????? ??? ?? ??? ???
• Link verbs can have adjectives, noun groups, or
  to-infinitive
• clauses as complements.
• -????? ???,???,to????? ??? ??? ???
• You can use it and there as impersonal
  subjects with
• link verbs.
• it ?? there?? ??? ??? ????? ?? ? ? ??

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Link verbs-1

• A small but important group of verbs are followed
  by a complement rather than an object.
• ???? ?? ??? ? ?? ???? ??? ???? ?? ??? ??? ?? ???
  ??? ???? ?????
• Complement
• Object
• The complement tells you more about the subject.
• ??? ??? ?? ? ?? ? ? ?????
• Verbs that take complements are called link
  verbs.
• - ??? ??? ??? ?? ??? ??? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? ???

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I am proud of these people. -? ??? ??
?????She was getting too old to play tennis. -
??? ???? ???? ?? ???They looked all right to me
-??? ??? ??? ???
Link verbs appear be
become feel get go grow
keep look prove remain seem
smell sound stay taste turn

• Examples)