1. Notes – Subject Complements

2. Types of Verbs Action Verbs – kick, swim, buy
Linking Verbs – is, was, smells
Helping Verbs – did ____, has ____
You need to know action and linking verbs for now

3. Linking Verbs Are… Any form of to be Examples – is, am, were, are,
Other words that can be replaced with a form of to be and make sense
Examples – feel, taste, become, smell, sound grow appear
These examples are not always linking verbs, but when they are not actively being done, they are linking verbs.

4. Subject Complements These follow linking verbs.
A subject complement will either describe a subject or rename a subject.
If you have a linking verb and something following it, that something will be a subject complement.

5. Subject Complements He is annoyed. You look tired.
He looked over the field. – No subject complement
The soup tasted delicious.

6. Practice: Identify any subjects, objects, prepositional phrases, and subject complements.
He bought me a box of chocolates yesterday.
The book of short stories was extremely interesting.
The soup smelled delicious.
She smelled the bowl of soup.