Monday, November 11, 2013

Lesson 123--Verbs that take adjectives


Verbs followed by adjectives


 


Most of you are quite good at following the "be" verb with adjectives.

ex The weather is nice.

There are other verbs that can be followed by adjectives.  When this happens they are describing the subject of the sentence.  These include:

seem
appear
become
get
grow
turn
feel
look
smell
taste'
sound

examples


He sounds strange.  Something is wrong with him.
He grew old very quickly.
Maria seems tired.
Jimmy is getting weirder and weirder every day.
This coffee tastes delicious.

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