Are linking verbs stative verbs?
Hallo there
I would like to know wether linking verbs like to be, to taste, to smell, to become are a subgroup of the stative verbs that don't have a continuous form.
The stative verbs are normally divided into groups according to their meaning like possession (have, owe, consist etc.), sense (sound, taste, smell), mental state (think, feel, doubt) and a few more.
The linking verbs describe a subject by attributing it an adjective like e.g. "good". In the sentence "The meal tastes good." to taste is a stative verb of sense. So it seems to me that all linking verbs are stative verbs.
Am I correct?
I am aware that not every stative verb is vice versa a linking verb like to think is a verb of mental state but no linking verb.
Are the linking verbs stative verbs that have specific meanings allowing them to join a subject to its describing complement?
I am looking forward to your answers.
Top answer
I'm a non-native so my understanding of the notion of the linking verb could be blurred by my lack of the English-speaker knowledge of language and their intuition. But I think that the verb "become" could be taken as a dynamic one. Strangely enough, there is a school of thought that seems to reject the notion of linking verb altogether.
- I'm a non-native so my understanding of the notion of the linking verb could be blurred by my lack of the English-speaker knowledge of language and their intuition.
- But I think that the verb "become" could be taken as a dynamic one.
- Strangely enough, there is a school of thought that seems to reject the notion of linking verb altogether.
- CGEL (The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language) treats linking verbs as ordinary verbs that are heads of the verb phrases, namely the heads of the predicate.
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I'm a non-native so my understanding of the notion of the linking verb could be blurred by my lack of the English-speaker knowledge of language and their intuition. But I think that the verb "become" could be taken as a dynamic one.
Strangely enough, there is a school of thought that seems to reject the notion of linking verb altogether. CGEL (The Cambridge Grammar of the English Languag
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