Linking verbs
İngilizce’de Link Verb fiillerinden sonra sıfat
gelir ve özneyi nitler. Link Verb yapısındaki cümlede fiil değil, özne
nitelenir, bu yüzden fiilden sonra zarf yerine sıfat kullanıılır.
En çok kullanılan linking
verb,
“to be”
(is, are, am; was, were).
Look,
smell, seem, …
A linking
verb (also called a connecting verb) connects the subject and the predicative complement
and shows the relationship between them. Link Verb yapısındaki cümlede fiil
değil de özne nitelenir, bu yüzden fiilden sonra zarf yerine sıfat kullanıılır.
Main linking verb is “be”. Fiilden sonra normal olarak bir zarf gelir fiili
niteler. Öte yandan İngilizce’de linking verbs’den sonra sıfat gelir ve özneyi
nitlerler.
Linking
verbs are often forms of the verb “to be”, but are sometimes verbs related to
the senses (look, sound, smell, feel, taste) and sometimes verbs that somehow
reflect a state of being (appear, seem, become, grow, turn, prove, and remain).
Linking Verbs: be, become,
seem, look, taste, smell, appear, sound, get, feel
The leaves turned yellow.
He became a writer.
It grew dark.
It is getting cold.
Mary seemed
sad. (Correct); Mary seemed sadly. (Not
Correct)
This room smells bad.
I feel great.
You look happy. “You look
happily” is not used.
She looks good.
He felt angry.
Dinner smells good. Yemek
güzel kokuyor.
You seem unhappy. Mutsuz
görünüyorsun.
The plant grew quickly.
A face appeared at the
window. It was Pauline. (prepositional phrase)
He’s a cousin of mine. (noun
phrase)
This coat feels good.
(adjective phrase)
She remained outside while
her sister went into the hospital. (adverb phrase)
Those people are all
professors.
Those professors are
brilliant.
A victory today seems
unlikely.
A handful
of verbs that reflect a change in state of being is sometimes called resulting
copulas.
They, too,
link a subject to a predicate adjective:
His face turned purple.She
became older.
The milk has gone sour.
The crowd grew ugly.
