Link Verbs. Verbs of Complete Predication. to grow. to look. to feel. to come

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Link Verbs

Verbs of Complete Predication

to be

The sun was full of promise. (Du Maurier)

No one was there to meet him. (Lind­say)

to grow

But she had grown too proud or too passive. (Wescott)

Perhaps I should grow a beard. I look too young to have been publishing for five years. (Wilson)

to look

He looked stupid and good-natured and happy. (Greene)

He blushed violently and looked away. (Wilson)

to feel

And yet at moments he felt very close to her. (Lindsay)

He felt great awe and admiration. (Wilson)

to come

The nightmare of my life had come true. (Buck)

Giles and Beatrice were coming for the night but nobody else. (Du Maurier)

to go

Philip Baring stiffened in his chair. His face went tense. (Wilson)

Of a misty January morning Soames had gone there once more. (Gals­worthy)

There are some verbs which, though fully preserving their con­crete meaning, perform the function of link verbs: they are used with _a predicative and form a compound nominal predicate. Here belong: to lie, to sit, to die, to marry, to return, to leave, to come, to stand, to fall, to go , etc.

After many adventures I and a little girl lay senseless in the Bad Lands. (Haggard)

The poor woman sat amazed. (Trollope)

 I stood transfixed with awe and joy. (Haggard)

Here the important thing is not that the speaker stood but that he stood transfixed with awe and joy.

Happily, too, the greater part of the boys came back low- spirited. (Dickens)

Sometimes the predicative does not immediately follow these verbs but is separated from them by an adverbial.

One evening she came home elated. (O. Henry)

Thus the same verb when used as a link verb may either lose its meaning or fully preserve it.

Irene's hair was going gray. (Galsworthy) (link verb)

Tom went home miserable. (Twain) (notional verb performing the function of a link verb)

According to their meaning link verbs can be divided into two large groups:

(1) link verbs of being and remaining;

 (2) link verbs of becoming.

The first group comprises such verbs as to be, to remain, to keep, to continue, to look, to smell, to stand, to sit, to lie, to shine, to seem, to prove, to appear, etc. The latter three verbs have some modal colouring.

Cotman was a nice-looking fellow, of thirty perhaps... (Maugham)

Do not delay, there is no time. Teacher Williams lies dead, al­ready. (Buck)

The Western powers stood aloof. (Buck)

Idris. aged five, at a litte desk all by himself near the fire, was looking extraordinarily pleased with life. (Cronin)

He felt exhausted not with physical fatigue, but with the weight of vague burdens. (Lindsay)

Either courseseemed unthinkable, without any connection with himself. (Lindsay)

The doorremained wide open; the voices insidewere louder than ever. (Priestley)

... the dancingcontinues fast and furious. (Douglas) Thatsounds not unsatisfactory. (Wilde)

The second group comprises such verbs as to become, to get, to grow, to come, to go, to leave, to run, to turn, to make, etc.

Oh, Adolphus Cusinswill make a very good husband. (Shaw)

Thisbecomes uninteresting, however, after a time. (Jerome)

 How can Iget married without my best man? (Lindsay)

And every month of his life hegrew handsomer and more interest­ing. (Burnett)

The great daydawned misty and overcast. (Du Maurier)

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