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=== auxiliary verb === | === auxiliary verb === | ||
=== | === linking verb === | ||
* "links" the subject to a complement and not to an object of the action | * "links" the subject to a complement and not to an object of the action | ||
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**** "My bike is painted red" = past participle adjective w/ linking verb "is" | **** "My bike is painted red" = past participle adjective w/ linking verb "is" | ||
**** "My bike is painted red" = the result of the act of being painted | **** "My bike is painted red" = the result of the act of being painted | ||
<gallery> | <gallery widths=400px heights=300px> | ||
File:Past-participle-as-subject-complement-to-linking-verb.jpg | |||
File:Past-participle-as-transitive-verb-w-auxiliary-verb.jpg | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||