Action & Linking Verbs

This post is taken from my another blog Jouney so far..

I never tried to study grammar part seriously. However, cliche may be it seems, you all know if you are good at EU you will end up solving at least 5-6 question 15 min!. So what is ROI on studying grammar? 15 questions + we assume to solve 5 question correctly = 20 marks i.e. more than half way through to clear the VA cutoff !! Anyway, let me start with discussing some of the grammar concepts that I have learnt and used in earlier CATs. I assume peopel are aware of basics such as What is a verb? What is a noun? so let me take you all to discuss what type verbs we mainly have. There are many types of verbs but i will broadly categorise them into only two types and are :

1) Action verb

2) Linking verb

Let us first see what do you mean by linking verb,

A verb that acts as a linking between a subject and direct object would be
termed as linking verb.

Linking verbs are a lot simpler to understand because there are a few verbs that are always identified as a linking verb. The list goes as follows..

is Was been

Am were being

Are be

These are the verbs, whenever they occur, mostly they are linking verbs.

Action verbs are the verbs which indicates action (Verb does the same, then how it is different?) There is a quick trick to identify action verbs from rest of the verbs that I will discuss in the next coming post. Firstly let me discuss how should we identify between Verbs & verb phrase??

Let us discuss this with an example.

The Cake tasted delicious

Any one would think the TESTED is an actiion verb?? let us check. A simple trick out here is,

insert a form of linking verb after the verb you have identified, if after inserting this, sentence still makes sense then verb is linking
verb !!!

Let is insert a from of linking verb WAS. Now the sentence becomes :

The Cake WAS delicious, Makes sense?? YES, So TASTED is not an action verb but is a linking verb. Here I have explained a very simple trick to solve questions based on verb and I think this post will surely make things clear.