Types of verbs
Type 1: An intransitive verb
- Men talk.
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Birds fly.
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Rivers flow.
Type 2: Linking verb
(look, become, get, grow, seem appear, turn, taste, smell, sound and feel)
- Bryan is overjoyed.
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Bryan’s son looks honest.
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Bryan became famous.
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The weather in Canada is getting colder.
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These exercises seem easy.
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The fish cooked by my mother tastes scrumptious.
Type 3: “Like + nouns” phrase
- It looks like rain.
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This water feels like ice.
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His voice sounds like your voice.
Type 4: “As if”
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It looks as if it is going to snow.
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I feel as if I had been returned home from Canada only yesterday.
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It sounds as if someone is knocking at the door of my house.