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LET'S READ! 📖
Direction: Read the short passages then answer the questions being asked.
The morning we were going on holiday everything seemed to go wrong. The taxi was due at 8:00 to take us to the airport. When I looked in on Adam at 7:00 he seemed to be awake, so I went downstairs to make breakfast. When I opened the fridge I found that the milk had gone off, so we couldn't have breakfast. Then Adam seemed to be taking a long time to come down, so at 7:30 I went back upstairs and he still hadn't gotten dressed. He said he wasn't feeling well, but I just shouted, 'You can't get ill when we're going on holiday!' After that, the keys to the luggage went missing, but Adam eventually found them in his jacket pocket. By 8:30 the taxi hadn't arrived and I was starting to get worried. It was becoming obvious that we were going to miss our plane if we didn't leave soon. But just then the taxi arrived and we made it to the airport with minutes to spare. Surprisingly, after such a bad start, it turned out to be an excellent holiday.
QUESTIONS:
1. Why did the speaker say everything seemed to go wrong in the morning of the day of their trip?
2. In the end, what happened to their vacation?
LET'S UNDERSTAND! 📚
What is a linking verb?
- verbs that link a noun or a pronoun with an adjective or noun.
🔺 Some linking verbs describe things that:
| Change | become, get, go, grow, turn |
| Stay the same | keep, remain, stay |
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We must not become complacent over any success.
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She turned pale at the sight of the miserable condition of the victim.
Example:
🔺 Some verbs of change are used in special ways.
turn vs go
- We can use 'turn' and 'go' with colors.
- go' is more informal and it describes bad changes.
| turn | go |
|---|---|
He stares up at the ominous grey sky, which will soon turn black. | Farmers were the first to be hit hard when the economy went bad. |
📌 We use 'get' or 'become' instead of 'go' with the words 'old' , 'tired' , 'ill'.
Example:
✅ Correct: We get tired and oftentimes we take it out on one another.
❌ Incorrect: We go tired and oftentimes we take it out on one another.
get vs become
- We can often use either get or become.
- Get is more common and informal.
| get | become |
|---|---|
| I think they're starting to get suspicious. | Many voters have become disenchanted with the government. |
📌 Become can be followed by a noun when it is a linking word, not got.
Example:
✅ Correct: I became a song composer in less than 5 years.
❌ Incorrect: I got a song composer in less than 5 years.
📌 We use get instead of become in imperatives and for shorter processes.
Example:
✅ Correct: Stop dilly-dallying and get dressed!
❌ Incorrect: Stop dilly-dallying and become dressed!
🔺 Some linking verbs describe senses:
| appear | seem | feel | smell |
| look | sound | taste |
🔺 To ask questions about the senses, use "what does it look/feel/etc.. like?" or "what is it like?"
🔺 The answer has a linking verb and an adjective , or a linking verb + like and a noun.
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A: What does she look like?
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A: What does it taste like?
Example:
B: She's tall and thin with light brown hair.
B: It's like chicken, but sweeter.
🔺 Prepositional verbs with like, such as look like, smell like, etc. mean resemble. They are usually followed by a noun.
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A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.
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Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
Example:
📌 A few descriptive verbs like lie, fall, sit, and stand are sometimes used as linking verbs.
📌 All linking verbs can be followed by an adjective, but be, become, feel, look, remain, stay, and sound can also be followed by nouns.
📌 Some adjectives that begin with a- like afraid, alive, alone, awake, and ill and well are usually used after linking verbs, especially be.
LET'S PRACTICE! 📝
Direction: Describe the changes that you have seen around you. You can talk about your neighborhood, office or home using the linking verbs that you learned.
