Romeo and Juliet declared their love for each other . Concertgoers jostled one another in the ticket line. Verbs A verb may express either action or a state of being. He ran for the train. Main Verbs Main verbs carry most of the meaning in the sentences or clauses in which they appear.
Some main verbs are action verbs.
Bulfinch's Mythology contains a discussion of Greek mythology. Emily Dickinson anticipated much of twentieth-century poetry. Other main verbs function as linking verbs. A linking verb does not show any physical or emotional action. Its function is to link the sentence's subject to a subject complement , a word or phrase that renames or describes the subject.