About Linking Verbs

• Many important verbs do not express action.
• am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
• They help make a statement and they link a noun or an adjective to the subject.
• They rename or describe the subject.
• The connection between the subject to the noun or adjective is something like an equal sign. He is tall. -- He = tall.

• The forms of to be can also be used as helping verbs.
• do, has, may; should; shall, ought, does, have, might, would, will, did, had; must;  could;  can;
• Forms of to be:  am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
• Ephesians 4:7 - is given ... helping verb, not a linking...
• Helping in "action," not in "being!"

• feel, taste, look, smell, appear, grow, remain, seem, sound, prove, become.
• State of being verbs can be used as linking verb or action verbs.
• State verbs or state of being verbs describes a condition or a state.
• It is not always a linking verb.
• State used as Linking or Action

I Timothy 1:8,9
Law IS good!
linking adjective

I Timothy 4:8
godliness IS profitable

I Timothy 4:10
Living God who IS Saviour of all men!

I Timothy 6:4
He IS proud, etc.

I Timothy 6:6
Godliness with contentment IS great gain

I Timothy 6:10
Love of money IS the root of all evil

2. Romans 3:28
a man is ... ___________________

3. Romans 6:7
He that is dead is... ___________________

4. Romans 6:23
Wages of sin is ... ___________________
Gift of God is ... ___________________

5. Galatians 4:18
It is ... ___________________

6. Galatians 5:22,23
But the fruit of the spirit is ... ___________________

7. Ephesians 2:7,8
It is ... ___________________
What is 'it'? ___________________

8. Ephesians 2:14
he is ... ___________________

9. Ephesians 4:22
Old man is ... ___________________

10. Ephesians 4:24
New man is... ___________________

11. Philippians 2:9
hath given him a name which is... ___________________

12. Philippians 2:11
Jesus Christ is ... ___________________

13. Philippians 3:19
Whose end is ... ___________________

14. Colossians 1:15
Who is ... ___________________
Who is the 'who'? ___________________

15. Colossians 3:4
who is ... ___________________

16. Titus 1:13
This witness is... ___________________

17. Titus 1:15
Unto the pure all things are ...
Unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is ... ___________________

18. Titus 3:8
This is ...
These things are ... ___________________

19. Titus 3:9
they are ... ___________________

20. Titus 3:10
Knowing that he that is such is ... ___________________