Action vs linking verb
The horse became famous overnight.”
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Is "became" an action verb as the sentence doesn't make sense after replacing it with equal sign?
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The horse became famous overnight . "Became" denotes a change of state and thus has a dynamic meaning here. As a whole, the sentence describes an event, so I suppose you could call it an 'action' verb if you liked.
- The horse became famous overnight .
- "Became" denotes a change of state and thus has a dynamic meaning here.
- As a whole, the sentence describes an event, so I suppose you could call it an 'action' verb if you liked.
- "Famous" is an adjective functioning as a predicative complement.
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The horse became famous overnight.
"Became" denotes a change of state and thus has a dynamic meaning here. As a whole, the sentence describes an event, so I suppose you could call it an 'action' verb if you liked.
"Famous" is an adjective functioning as a predicative complement.
0Jigneshbharatithe sentence doesn't make sense after replacing it with equal sign?
Why would you want to replace "became" with an equals sign?
0That website oversimplifies to the point that on careful examination it is actually wrong.
Even "I = sad" makes no sense, not to mention the other cases. The equal sign ( = ) is used with such an approximate meaning there that it requires a lot of guesswork to understand what exactly it means.
The point that they're trying to make is that certain verbs act differently from mo
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