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. But, for now, let's keep it simple. You could write a hundred sentences like this and never get one wrong. Now look at the other example.
Parents residing permanently in the village usually seem happier with the mayor.
At first it looks more complicated, but let's reduce it to its most basic parts. All you really need to do is sort things into their appropriate compartments. Later this semester, we'll explore such things as prepositional phrases. By then, you probably won't need to explore them very much because we'll have already run into many of them incidentally. I won't mislead you.