Sentence:
The child became curious about the world around him.

• Verb: became → Linking Verb

Linking Verb:

• কাজ সম্পন্ন করে না, বরং subject এবং complement-এর মধ্যে সংযোগ স্থাপন করে।

• Example: The child became curious → ‘became’ subject ‘The child’ এবং complement ‘curious’-এর মধ্যে link করেছে।

• সাধারণ Linking Verbs: be, become, seem, feel, grow, look, smell, sound, taste, remain, get, turn, etc.

More Examples:

• The flowers smell fresh.

• He seems tired.

• The milk turned sour.

• She feels happy.

• The room looks clean.

Other Verb Types (Quick Reference):

• Transitive Verb: Needs an object → I eat rice.

• Intransitive Verb: No object → He sleeps.

• Causative Verb: Subject makes someone else do something → He made me do the work.

  • Common: make, have, get, help, let

Quick Tip:

• Linking = connects subject + complement

• Transitive = needs object

• Intransitive = no object

• Causative = subject causes action by someone else

Linking Verb (Copulative Verb)

• Definition: যে সমস্ত verb সাধারণত subject এবং subjective complement এর মধ্যে যোগসূত্র স্থাপন করে, তাদেরকে linking verb বা copulative verb বলে।

• বৈশিষ্ট্য:

  • Linking verb সাধারণত actionless হয়।

  • Complement হিসেবে সাধারণত adjective বসে।

  • Adverbs ব্যবহার করা যেতে পারে যদি তারা linking verb-কে বর্ণনা করে, subject-কে নয়।

উদাহরণ

• He got angry. ✅

  • Got = linking verb, subject “He” এবং adjective “angry” এর মধ্যে সংযোগ।

• He became a doctor.

  • Became = linking verb, complement = “a doctor”

• My coffee remains hot.

  • Remains = linking verb, complement = “hot”

• The car looks fast.

  • Looks = linking verb, complement = “fast”

সাধারণ linking verbs

• be, become, look, seem, remain, appear, get, grow

Action Verb vs Linking Verb

Source: A Passage to the English Language, Zakir Hussain