1.2 The simple sentence: verbs with and without objects
1.2C Sentences with linking verbs like 'be' and 'seem' [> LEG 1 .9,1.11, 10 .23-26]
Study:
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Write:Verbs like be [> 10.1-3] and seem [> Ю.4] are 'linking verbs'. They cannot have an object.
The word we use after be, etc. tells us something about the subject. In grammar, we call this a
complement because it 'completes' the sentence by telling us about the subject.
In He is ill. She seems tired, etc. the words ill and tired tell us about he and she.A complement may be:- an adjective:
- a noun:
- an adjective + noun:
-a pronoun: - an adverb of place or time:
- a prepositional phrase:
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Frank is clever.
Frank is an architect.
Frank is a clever architect.
This book is mine.
The meeting is here. The meeting is at 2.30.
Alice is like her father.Complete these sentences using a different complement for each sentence.
Say whether you have used a noun, an adjective, an adjective + noun, etc.My neighbour is very
My neighbour is
This apple tastes
The children are
The meeting is
Whose is this? It's
John looks
That music sounds
Your mother seems
I want to be when I leave school1.2D Context
Write: Read this story and arrange the words in each sentence in the right order.
Add capital letters and (,), (.), (!) or (?) in the right places [> 1.1В].SO PLEASE DON'T COMPLAIN!
1 the local school | attends | my son Tim
2 to his school I my wife and I went | yesterday
3 we I to his teachers | spoke
4 Tim's school report | we collected
5 very good | wasn't | Tim's report
6 in every subject | were | his marks | low
7 was waiting anxiously for us | outside | Tim
8 'my report | how was' | eagerly | he asked
9 'very good | it wasn't' | I said
10 'you I harder | must try
11 seems | that boy Ogilvy | very clever
12 good marks | he got | in all subjects'
13 'clever parents | Ogilvy | has' | Tim said