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It is better that you do not know where I live. I will get in touch with you. (Wilson)

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§ 11. The compound predicate.

As can be seen from the term itself the compound predic consists of two parts: (a) a finite verb and (b) some other pari speech: a noun, a pronoun, an adjective, a verbal (a participle gerund, an infinitive), etc. The second component is the signific; part of the predicate.

The first part expresses the verbal categories of person, numb» tense, aspect, mood and voice; besides it has a -certain lexir meaning of its own. The compound predicate may be nominal verbal.

§ 12. The compound nominal predicate.

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 whicl; this person or thing belongs (e. g. She is a student).

The compound nominal predicate consists of a link verb and ; predicative (the latter is also called the nominal part of the pred icate).

The link verb (or a verb of incomplete predication) expresses the verbal categories of person, number, tense, aspect, mood, some­times voice. All link verbs, as the result of a long development, have partly lost their original concrete meaning. One link verb has lost its concrete meaning altogether: this is the verb to be, which can be called a pure link verb as it performs only a grammatical function and can be linked with a predicative expressed by any part of speech used in this function.

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Most'link verbs to some extent preserve their meaning. 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)

Many of these verbs can be used both as verbs of complete predication fully preserving their concrete meaning and as link verbs.

LINK VERBS VERRS OF COMPLETE PREDICATION

to be

Jli' sun was full of promise. (Du No one was there to meet him. Maurier) (Lindsay)

to grow

Ill she had grown too proud Perhaps I should grow a beard. I or too passive. (Wescott) look too young to have been

publishing for five years. (Wilson)

to look

He looked stupid and good-na- He blushed violently and looked tured and happy. (Greene) away. (Wilson)

to feel

And yet at moments he felt very He felt great awe and admiration, close to her. (Lindsay) (Wilson)

to come

The nightmare of my life had Giles and Beatrice were coming come true. (Buck) for the night but nobody else.

(Du Maurier)

to go

Philip Baring stiffened in his On a misty January morning Soames chair. His face went tense. had gone there once more. (Wilson) (Galsworthy)

There are some verbs which, though fully preserving their con­crete meaning, perform the function of link verbs: \hey are used with a predicative and form a compound nominal predicate. 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)