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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

can "beautiful" be used as a verb?

So the exercise in the workbook is:
Circle the adverbs and underline the words they describe.
the sentence is:
The stars in the night sky looked incredibly beautiful.
the answer is: adverb = incredibly, and beautiful is underlined

Can anyone explain this to me? since I thought looked was the verb. Or is the answer just wrong?
  

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The adverb isn’t modifying any verb here, but the adjective beautiful to form the predicative adjective phrase incredibly beautiful , which relates to the subject the stars in the night sky . Look is often called a ‘linking verb’ when it takes a predicative complement.

— RandomGuy

  • The adverb isn’t modifying any verb here, but the adjective beautiful to form the predicative adjective phrase incredibly beautiful , which relates to the subject the stars in the night sky .
  • Look is often called a ‘linking verb’ when it takes a predicative complement.
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The adverb isn’t modifying any verb here, but the adjective beautiful to form the predicative adjective phrase incredibly beautiful, which relates to the subject the stars in the night sky.

Look is often called a ‘linking verb’ when it takes a predicative complement.
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Anonymouscan "beautiful" be used as a verb?
No. It's an adjective.
AnonymousThe stars in the night sky looked incredibly beautiful.the answer is: adverb = incredibly, and beautiful is underlined
'incredibly' is an adverb of degree. It says how beautiful it looked.

I think this is the point you're missing:
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