All About Verbs

Action Verbs

Stative Verbs

Linking or copula verbs

A linking verb—also called a copula—is a verb that joins a
subject with a predicate

My teacher is funny.

Other linking

or copula

verbs

My teacher smells
funny.

Funny is the predicate

• Predicate noun

She is a teacher

• Predicate adjective

She is pretty

They played the drums.

Subject = they

Verb= played

Object= the drums

He loves her.
Direct Object

• indirect object

She loves him