Linking Verb Predicate Adjective

What is a Linking Verb?

• Connects the subject of a sentence with a noun or an adjective.

• A skill every one must have.

• Answers Whom or What.

What are some common linking verbs?

• also, enter, well

• Her, him, them

• Be, look, smell

• turn, sound, grow

What is the Linking verb in this sentence? Wyatt turned 13, 2 days a go.

• turned

• Wyatt

• days

A (your answer) is a noun that follows a linking verb. It tells what the subject is.

• Predicate Noun

• Predicate Adjective

• Indirect Object

What is the linking verb in this sentence? Tori was the Manger of a big company.

• Tori

• big

• Manger

• was

Plants _____ in many gardens.

• are

• look

• grow

• turn

Frank ____ a wing on the basketball team.

• the

• is

• all

• grow

What is the predicate noun in this sentence? Levi is the point guard.

• Levi

• is

• Point Guard

• the

What is a predicate adjective?

• The answer

• adjective that follows the linking verb

• the indirect object

• all of the above.

Add an adjective in the sentence. The dog____ everything.

• loved

• liked

• all

• my