The Link verbs as a compound nominal predicate. !!!!!!!1
The compound nominal predicate denotes the state or quality of the person or thing expressed by the subject (e. g. He is tired, The book is interesting), or the class of persons or things to which this person or thing belongs (e. g.She is a student). Складний іменний присудок позначає стан або якість людини або речі, виражені підметом, або клас осіб або речей, до яких ця людина або річ належить.
The compound nominal predicate consists of a link verb and a predicative (the latter is also called the nominal part of the predicate). Складний іменний присудок складається з дієслова зв'язки і присудка.
The link verb expresses the verbal categories of person, number, tense, aspect, mood, sometimes voice. Дієслова звязки виражають словесні категорії особи, числа, часу, аспекту, настрою, іноді голосу.
Most link verbs to some extent preserve their meaning. Більшість дієслів звязок у якійсь мірі зберегти своє значення.
The following are the most common of these link verbs: to appear, to get, to grow, to continue, to feel, to keep, to look, to turn, to hold, to prove, to turn out, to loom, to rank, to remain, to run, to seem, to smell, to taste, to fall, to stand, to go, to work.
His wife sighed and remained silent.(London) Harris grew more cheerful. (Jerome) At my age I get nervous.(Galsworthy)
He soon fell fast asleep in my arms, sobbing at longer intervals.(Dickens) The boat seemed stuffy.(Jerome)
She, for her part, felt recessive and thence evasive.(Dreiser)
There
are some verbs which, though fully preserving their concrete
meaning, perform the function of link verbs: they are used with a
predicative and form a compound nominal predicate.
Є деякі дієслова, які,
хоча і повністю зберігаючи своє конкретне
значення, виконують функцію сполучних
дієслів: вони використовуються з
присудком і утворюють складний іменний
присудок.
Here belong: to lie, to sit, to die, to marry, to return, to leave, to come, to stand, to fall, to go, etc.
After many adventures I and a little girl lay senseless in the Bad Lands. (Haggard)
The poor woman sat amazed.(Trollope)
I stood transfixed with awe and joy.(Haggard)
Here the important thing is not that the speaker stood but that he stood transfixed with awe and joy. Тут головне не те, що спікер стояв, але що він стояв завмерши з благоговінням і радістю.
Happily, too, the greater part of the boys came back low-spirited.(Dickens)
Sometimes the predicative does not immediately follow these verbs but is separated from them by an adverbial.
One evening she came home elated. (0. Henry)
Thus the same verb when used as a link verb may either lose its meaning or fully preserve it.
Irene's hair was going gray. (Galsworthy) (link verb)
Tom went homemiserable. (Twain) (notional verb performing the function of a link verb)
According to their meaning link verbs can be divided into two large groups:
(1) link verbs of being and remaining; буття та інші;
(2) link verbs of becoming. становлення.
The first group comprises such verbs as to be, to remain, to keep, to continue, to look, to smell, to stand, to sit, to lie, to shine, to seem, to prove, to appear, etc. The latter three verbs have some modal colouring.
Cotman was a nice-looking fellow, of thirty perhaps ...(Maugham)
Do not delay, there is no time. Teacher Williams lies dead, already. (Buck)
The Western powers stood aloof.(Buck)
Idris, aged five, at a little desk all by himself near the fire, was looking extraordinarily pleased with life.(Cronin)
He felt exhausted not with physical fatigue, but with the weight of vague burdens. (Lindsay)
Either course seemed unthinkable, without any connection with himself. (Lindsay)
The door remained wide open; the voices insidewere louder than ever. (Priestley)
... the dancingcontinues fast and furious.(Douglas)
That sounds not unsatisfactory.(Wilde)
The second group comprises such verbs as to become, to get, to grow, to come, to go, to leave, to run, to turn, to make, etc.
Oh, Adolphus Cusins will make a very good husband.(Shaw)
This becomes uninteresting, however, after a time.(Jerome)
How can I get married without my best man?(Lindsay)
And every month of his life he grew handsomer and more interesting.(Burnett)
The great day dawned misty, and overcast.(Du Maurier)