Review: Linking Verbs
Indicate whether the highlighted verb is used as a linking verb:
- Frankenstein is the name of the scientist not the monster.
- The oenophile tasted several types of Beaujolais.
- Francine grows prize-winning dahlias.
- The cheesecake tastes delicious.
- After smoking three cigars, Bridget turned green.
- The cat fastidiously smelled the dish of food placed before it.
- The flowers always grow quickly during a sunny summer.
- The stew that Gordon made smells too spicy to me.
- Walter was annoyed because Sophy turned the corner too quickly.
- Lester B. Pearson was a prominent twentieth-century politician.
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