Parents residing permanently in the village usually seem happier with the mayor.
Notice that most of these verbs emerge from the five bodily senses. To differentiate a linking verb from an intransitive verb, you must examine the parts of the sentence that follow it. That is, they contain, along with the subject and the verb, a subject complement. The verb, in fact, must be a special kind of verb called a linking verb that does little more than link the subject to the subject complement. We will eventually explore examples of all of these.