 [Excerpt below taken from talkenglish.com]
The verb "to be" is different from other verbs in English. "Be verbs" do not show an action. "Be verbs" show a state of being. They act like an equals sign (=) in math. "Be verbs" are usually followed by a noun or an adjective. A noun is a person, place, thing, or thing. An adjective is a word that describes a noun like big, small, happy, fast, interesting, and annoying. Simple present tense "be verbs" are - am, is, are. "Be verbs" go after the subject. Use this pattern with "be verbs": Subject + be verb + noun/adjective To read more about the "be" verb, click here. To practice using the "be" verb, click on the exercises below: To practice more, you can find other exercises at this link: https://agendaweb.org/verbs/to-be-exercises.html 1/12/2020 06:44:40 pm
The English language is not easy to comprehend, I will tell you that much. I think that people need to go and master it day in and day out. There are lots of people who are confident about what they know and are just not looking forward to improve any longer. In my opinion, we need to go and try to improve every single time that we can. We have the means to do it, so we need to do it. Comments are closed.
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