ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lasagne, Semicolon, Diego Costa
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They usually tell us which, what kind of, how many, or how much. Like nouns, adjectives can be proper and common. Sean was a faster runner than me, but fatima was the fastest. Verb: action, state of being, occurrence, process, condition. verbs. He celebrated world peace day). need an object: (she caught the bus. The building collapsed). do not take an object (he sighed. Linking verbs (be, become, appear, seem, feel, look, taste, etc) represent states of being and do not take objects either, per se. However, they still need something to be complete (you cannot have a sentence saying only they seemed or she became). So you need a subjective complement to complete the clause. The complement is, or acts as, an adjective or noun, depending on its function. In both cases it applies to the subject ( they and she in the following examples). Some verbs can be linking or transitive, depending on context.
