Verbs

Linking Verbs
-Connect subject to more information about the subject

True linking verbs (no matter what form they are still linking verbs)
-is (not something that the subject can do)
-was
-are
-were
-am
-has been
-are being
-might have been
-become
-seem

List of verbs with multiple personalities (can sometimes be action verbs)
-feel
-appear
-grow
-look
-prove
-remain
-smell
-sound
-taste
-turn

How to tell btw true linking verb and action verb?
-when you can substitute is, are, am and the sentence still sounds logical

Action Verb/Dynamic Verb
- Can a person or thing do this?

To-Be Verbs

-am

-are

-were

-is

-was

State Verb

- Express general states

- Emotion, possession, sense and thought

Transitive Verbs
- Must be an action verb
- Must have a direct object

Helping Verbs

- Be

- Do

- Have