A- I read on EC today that a linking verb usually shows a change to a different state or place.
Examples:
1- The sky became dark.
The sky - dark.
2- That sounds interesting.
And also, linking verbs shows equally, for example:
Mary is a teacher.
B- We know that many linking verbs are similar to stative verbs.
For examples:
look, seem, sound, taste,be,...
Now, here is my question:
Are linking verbs and stative verbs the same?
Best wishes,
Bijan
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Dear Danny!
It is very kind of you.
Thank you for giving me the above links.
I saved your links.
I am going to read them tomorrow.
Thanks to you and dear Tanya who are liable teachers.
Best wishes,
Thank you, dear Bijan! I am adding the links where you can read more about the stative verbs
http://bayan.50webs.com/eng/grammar/tenses_files/state_verb.htm
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/stative-verbs.html
Dear Danny!
It is very interesting for me that we can make gerunds negative with "Not".
I had never heard about this before.
Thanks to you and dear Tanya for creating this group that all students can present their questions here.
I wish you and dear Tanya all the best.
Have a nice time and best wishes,
Dear Danny!
I got my answers about linking verbs and stative verbs very well.
Now, I know them very well.
In my opinion, this subject (linking verbs and stative verbs) is an important lesson in English grammar that you explained it very well.
I hope that all students to read your answers carefully.
Thanks a lot and best wishes,
Bijan
It is easy to answer this question. Yes, the negative foer of any gerung is NOT + GERUND:
not doing (simple form, active);
not being done (simple form, passive);
not having done (perfect form, active);
not having been done (perfect form, passive)
Bijan said:
Dear Bijan! I have never met any rule about that, only about the linking verbs. As far as I know, the rest are used with adverbs.
Bijan said:
Today, I looked at your below sentence:
"...I am sorry for not seeing your question earlier".
One question, please:
Why is "Seeing" negative with not?
Is it because of "seeing" is a gerund (noun)?
Can we make all gerunds negative with not?
Thanks in advance,
Bijan
Thank you very much.
Because of this, I asked you the above question that you have said before:
"...there are much more stative verbs, but they all are used with adverbial modifiers...".
In a nutshell, does your above sentence mean that we can use adverbs after all stative verbs?
Thanks in advance,
Bijan
Dear Bijan! We don't know any special rule, sorry!
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