A linking verb links, or connects, the subject with a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective in the predicate.
Ex. One of the apples was bruised.
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Linking Verbs Formed From the Verb Be |
| am | was being | should be | has been |
| are | be | would be | was |
| is | been | must be | were |
| will be | may be | being | will have been |
| appear | become | feel |
| grow | look | remain |
| seem | smell | sound |
| stay | taste | turn |