<font color="#ff0000">1. Be verbs</font> can be followed by these 3 kinds of words: nouns, adjectives, and prepositions. <br/><br/><font color="#ff0000">2. Verbs to be</font> can be followed by these 3 kinds of words: nouns, adjectives, and prepositions.<br/><br/>A Taiwanese teacher of English said that sentence #1 is incorrect because native speakers do not use the expression "be verb."<br/><br/>He insisted the idiomatic expression is "verb to be." Can any native speaker make some comments?