Hello everyone, how are you today? This is Mark. I'm doing just great. Thanks for asking. Stephen looked happy to see me at the party. Learning English is extremely important for your future. This found the city quite hectic. The cat appeared behind the couch. I feel a bit of a loser by talking to a video camera. In this lesson we're going to look at linking verbs. So stay tuned. When you want to describe a situation or even somebody, for example to list the qualities of something or somebody, we use linking verbs. They are sometimes called copulas. These linking verbs are be, prove, appear, smell, look, go, keep, become, get, stay, turn, down, taste and see. There are some others, but these are the most important ones. I've listed some rules to follow. They link the subject and the complement of a statement, just like my first introductory example. Stephen, here Stephen is the subject, looked, so look is the linking verb. Happy to see me at the party. Happy to see me at the party here is the complement. Now another example could be his positive attitude, his positive attitude. Here is the subject. Then we have was, which is the verb to be, is the linking verb, surprising the complement. Now another rule adjectives can be used as compliments. We saw the first example at the beginning of the lesson, learning English is extremely important to your future, I think, or for your future. So here we have important, which is the adjective and the verb to be is. Another example could be she seemed sad yesterday when she heard the news. Here seemed is the linking verb to seem, seemed sad, sad is the adjective. Let's look at other rules. Okay, so verbs such as find and make can be used with both an object and a complement, just like my example. Lies found, find, here is the linking verb, the city, the object, quite hectic, the complement. Hectic means busy and confusing. Another example could be my math teacher used to make me depressed. So here we have make the verb, the linking verb, right here. Then we have me the object and then depressed is the compliment. Another rule is we can use a prepositional phrase instead of a compliment. If you want to watch a lesson on prepositional phrases, you can click here. The cat appeared, appear is the linking verb here, behind the couch, behind the couch is the prepositional phrase. Another example, my mom is in front of the street and here in front of the street, obviously, is the prepositional phrase. Now the last rule that I want to talk about is we could use descriptive nouns or noun groups after some linking verbs. For example, feel, seem, sound, represent, look, etc. My two examples are he seems and here seem to seem is the linking verb, a nice person, a nice person is a descriptive noun. So the other example with the noun group in this case, they feel, feel is the linking verb, the water of the river, here is the noun group, okay, the water of the river flowing near their cabin. Now let's recap. This lesson I talked about linking verbs such as go, be, become, get, they usually link the subject to the compliment. I've listed five useful tips for you to follow. If you haven't understood, please re-watch the video. So that's it for today. If you have any comments, requests or if you want to post your own example, you may do so under this video. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so. You'll get next week a new lesson. Have a great day and I see you next week. Take care, bye bye.