CBSE Class 6 English Linking Verbs and Predicate Words Worksheet

A linking verb connects a sentence’s subject with a noun or an adjective in the predicate. The predicate word tells what a sentence’s subject is or is like.

An avocado is a fruit. (The linking verb is connects the subject avocado with fruit.)

In the sentence above, fruit is a predicate noun. It tells what the subject, avocado, is. Some sentences have a predicate adjective, an adjective that follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is like.

This avocado is ripe. (Ripe is a predicate adjective. It tells what the subject avocado is like.)

                      COMMON LINKING VERBS

appear                            become           grow seem
am, is, are, was, were      feel                 look taste

• Exercise 1 Draw two lines under the verb in each sentence. Write AV in the blank if the verb is an action verb. Write LV if it is a linking verb.

LV Dogs are popular pets.

AV 1. Many dogs use their tails for communication.

AV 2. A dog’s tail expresses playfulness or fear.

LV 3. Some dogs’ tails are long and thin.

AV 4. Other dogs have fluffy or curly tails.

LV 5. Dogs are very good smellers.

LV 6. Their noses are extremely sensitive.

LV 7. Certain dogs actually become detectives.

AV 8. They search with their noses.

LV 9. A dog’s hearing is also very strong.

AV 10. Dogs hear many things.

AV 11. Dogs’ ears move in different directions.

LV 12. Dogs seem sensitive to sounds.

AV 13. Most dogs have forty-two teeth.

AV 14. Different types of teeth serve different purposes.

LV 15. Some dogs are web-footed.

AV 16. Webbed feet make dogs good swimmers.

LV 17. Canine eyesight is different from human eyesight.

LV 18. Small details look fuzzy to dogs.

LV 19. Most colors appear gray to them.

AV 20. In the dark, dogs see better than humans.

• Exercise 2 Draw two lines under the linking verb in each sentence. Write PA in the blank if the verb is followed by a predicate adjective. Write PN if it is followed by a predicate noun.

PN Snakes are very interesting animals.

PA 1. Not all of them are poisonous.

PN 2. Earth is home to more than two thousand species of snakes.

PA 3. About a dozen snake species are rare.

PN 4. One endangered snake is the indigo.

PA 5. Indigos seem very friendly.

PA 6. They are native to Florida and Georgia.

PA 7. Some snakes grow extremely long.

PA 8. A few become longer than thirty feet.

PN 9. The South American anaconda is a large snake.

PA 10. Some anacondas are thick.

PN 11. Thread snakes are the smallest snakes.

PA 12. Some of them appear tiny.

PA 13. A snake’s scaly skin looks slippery.

PA 14. Its skin is only temporary.

PA 15. Some snakes are poisonous.

PN 16. All snakes are carnivores.