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Using Verbs

cat watching fish swim in a fishbowl

An action verb tells what the subject is doing.

The fish swim.

       (Swim is an action verb telling what the fish are doing.)

A linking verb tells what the subject is being.

They are pretty.

       (Are is a linking verb telling what the fish are being—pretty.)

 

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