Linking Verbs Explanation
- She looks beautiful.
- The soup tastes good.
The Linking Verb List
- appear
- be (is, am are, was, were, been)
- become
- feel
- get
- grow (meaning "become")
- look
- seem
- sound
- taste
- turn ( meaning "become")
The Linking Verbs in Sentences
- My mother is in the kitchen.
- She looks very busy.
- Sue has been very sad. Her father just passed away.
- This cake tastes delicious.
- A lot of people feel unhappy with the government.
- My girlfriend grows more and more beautiful each day.
Linking Verb Exercises
Exercise I
Complete the sentences with the correct linking verbs provided.
The cake does not ... sweet.
The princess ... so beautiful.
The children ... happy.
The leaves ... brown.
The perfume ... jasmine.
Exercise II
Underline the correct word in parentheses.
The sofa looks (comfortable, comfortably).
My father always looks at any problems (careful, carefully).
My wife smiled (happy, happily). She seemed (happy, happily).
She looked (sad, sadly) when she read the message.
This exercise looks (easy, easily). I think everyone can do it (easy, easily).
The sky often grows (dark, darkly) in January and February.
I tasted the cake (careful, carefully) and it tasted too (sweet, sweetly).
The town got (quiet, quietly) as the virus spread. A lot of people stay at home (quiet, quietly).
Many elderly people get (sick, sickly) because of these viruses.
My mother always appear (beautiful, beautifully) when she goes out.
Answer
Exercise I
taste
looks
feel
turn
smells
taste
looks
feel
turn
smells
Exercise II
The sofa looks (comfortable, comfortably).
My father always looks at any problems (careful, carefully).
My wife smiled (happy, happily). She seemed (happy, happily).
She looked (sad, sadly) when she read the message.
This exercise looks (easy, easily). I think everyone can do it (easy, easily).
The sky often grows (dark, darkly) in January and February.
I tasted the cake (careful, carefully) and it tasted too (sweet, sweetly).
The town got (quiet, quietly) as the virus spread. A lot of people stay at home (quiet, quietly).
Many elderly people get (sick, sickly) because of these viruses.
My mother always appears (beautiful, beautifully) when she goes out.
The sofa looks (comfortable, comfortably).
My father always looks at any problems (careful, carefully).
My wife smiled (happy, happily). She seemed (happy, happily).
She looked (sad, sadly) when she read the message.
This exercise looks (easy, easily). I think everyone can do it (easy, easily).
The sky often grows (dark, darkly) in January and February.
I tasted the cake (careful, carefully) and it tasted too (sweet, sweetly).
The town got (quiet, quietly) as the virus spread. A lot of people stay at home (quiet, quietly).
Many elderly people get (sick, sickly) because of these viruses.
My mother always appears (beautiful, beautifully) when she goes out.