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3 days ago · Linking Verbs. Linking verbs connect the subject to more information about it. They describe a state of being or condition, not an action. Example: The sky is blue. “Is” links “sky” to its description “blue.”. Common linking verbs include forms of “to be” (is, am, are, was, were) and verbs like “seem” and “become.”.
2 days ago · Was: Definition, Meaning, and Examples. 1. Was (verb): Past tense of "be." 2. Was (verb): Used to indicate an occurrence or state in the past. The term "was" is a common verb in the English language, primarily used as the past tense form of the verb "be." This word serves to describe situations or states that happened in the past.
2 days ago · Hundreds of thousands of synonyms and antonyms arranged by meaning and with key synonyms highlighted; Audio pronunciations for synonyms and antonyms; Images for thousands of entries; Thousands of example sentences taken from the Collins corpus, to help choose the right word; Proverbs and quotations by famous authors
3 days ago · The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [ a ] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [ b ]) and by their lack of the ending ‑ (e) s for the ...
2 days ago · speaking or singing at the same time; simultaneously. “they shouted `Yes!' in unison ”. synonyms: in chorus. adverb. at the same pitch. “they sang in unison ”.
4 days ago · Contrasting ideas: 'although', 'despite' and others. Do you know how to connect two contrasting ideas with words like although and despite? Test what you know with interactive exercises and read the explanation to help you. Look at these examples to see how although, even though, in spite of and despite are used.
2 days ago · By 1815, he proposed legislation to ‘compel clerks of assize and clerks of the peace regularly to make returns to the Secretary of State, in order that they may be laid before Parliament, of all criminals tried at the assizes and quarter sessions, and of their crimes and sentences’ (Romilly 1841b: 158 [8 March 1815]), which later became law (55 Geo. III c. 49). The statute in question gave ...
