[Voiceover] Hello, grammarians.발음듣기
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Today, we're talking about verbs and bears.발음듣기
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We had previously established at least one thing about the verb, and that was that it can show actions.발음듣기
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But today I'd like to introduce the idea that the verb can link ideas to one another.발음듣기
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In fact, we have this whole class of verbs that we call "linking verbs."발음듣기
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Or, if you want to call it something fancier, we call that "state of being verbs."발음듣기
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These linking verbs include all forms of the verb "to be," which I have handily written out for you.발음듣기
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So, I am, he is we are, be nice, they were being, they have been, he was, we were.발음듣기
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Now we use a linking verb when we want to connect one idea to another.발음듣기
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So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna divide the screen in half between the action side and the state of being side, just to show you what I mean.발음듣기
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So we use action verbs to show what something does, whereas we use state of being verbs to show what something is.발음듣기
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So let's bring it back to this bear.발음듣기
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Let's think of an action for this bear to do.발음듣기
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What is a bear-like thing to do?발음듣기
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The bear eats a fish. That's an action.발음듣기
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That's something the bear is doing.발음듣기
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The bear is hungry, however, is not something that the bear is doing, it's something that the bear is.발음듣기
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So what "is" is doing here, is connecting the word hungry," to the word bear."발음듣기
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Some verbs can be used both ways.발음듣기
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They can be used both as actions, and as linking verbs.발음듣기
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I'll show you an example of that.발음듣기
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You could say, "The bear looked at me."발음듣기
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Which is to say the bear is doing a thing, looking, at something, namely me.발음듣기
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But we could also say, using the same verb, "The bear looked lonely."발음듣기
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Now in this case, this is describing how the bear looks.발음듣기
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What the bear looks like.발음듣기
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This looking is not something the bear is doing, it is how the bear appears to a viewer.발음듣기
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So, "looked" is connecting lonely" to bear."발음듣기
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It is linking "lonely" to bear."발음듣기
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It is a linking verb.발음듣기
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By the same token, we could say, for an action, "The bear smells a person."발음듣기
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What is it smelling? A person.발음듣기
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But we could also say, "The bear smells like cinnamon."발음듣기
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Which, I grant you, is pretty unlikely.발음듣기
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Don't go smelling bears.발음듣기
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But what "smells" is doing here is connecting the idea of cinnamon, to the bear.발음듣기
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The bear isn't smelling the cinnamon, the bear smells like cinnamon.발음듣기
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And that's the difference between a linking very and an action verb.발음듣기
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A linking verb shows what something is, an action verb shows what something does.발음듣기
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So the bear is hungry, the bear looked lonely, the bear smells like cinnamon.발음듣기
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These all reflect something about what the bear is.발음듣기
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You can learn anything, David out.발음듣기
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