Verbs carry the weight of a sentence, adding color and lending strength to sentence meaning. They have properties to convey exact meaning of time and movement. The subject and verb must agree in number.
There are three kinds of verbs.
(1) Transitive Verbs take a direct object. The boy shot the arrow.
(2) Intransitive Verbs do not transfer action to some person or object. The arrow was shot by the boy.
(3) Linking verbs link subject to an equivalent. The linking verbs are: to be (is, was, etc. al.), appear, become, feel get grow, lie, look, prove, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste.
Example:
The captain is her brother. (This is called a predicate noun)
He was the victim (predicate adjective)
The rose smells sweet (predicate adjective)
