What Is a Verb?
Everything You Need to Know
What is a verb?
As you can see from the above definition, there are two main categories of verbs: those that express action and those that express a state of being, also called linking verbs. Click here to see a list of all 13 linking verbs
Because action verbs and linking verbs are strong enough to be used in sentences all by themselves, they are called main verbs.
I am a teacher. (linking verb)