Directions: for each sentence, identify the linking verb and the subject complement. Place a comma between the linking verb and the subject complement. Example: The flowers were bright and cheerful. Answer= were (LV), bright and cheerful (SC)

It was Nora who suggested we clean it up. *

“WAS” is the Linking Verb, “NORA WHO SUGGESTED WE CLEAN IT UP” is the Subject Complement.

Explanation:

Subject Complement is a word or a phrase that comes immediately after the Linking Verb giving additional or further information about the subject.  

Linking verbs which are also the connecting verbs link a subject with what the SUBJECT IS, i.e. these verbs describe a subject.  Linking verbs do not tell us about the action of the subject.

The most common linking verbs are the BE form, i.e., is, are, am, become, was, were, are being, has been, seem etc.  There are other forms that can play the role of linking verbs, i.e., they can act as linking verbs as well as action verbs.  For example:  appear, taste, smell

first of all wood chucks don't "chuck" wood. none, and for the fun of the answer the amount of wood chucked would be a lot!

explanation:

a wood chuck is a ground hog, it belongs to the family of large underground squirrels. it belongs to the family of marmots. ground hogs eat grasses, berry's, and other vegetation.

shakespeare was famous for writing in iambic pentameter, which is a specific way of rhyming sonnet lines in ten syllables. there are also forms of unrhymed iambic pentameter, as in macbeth, with the noble characters.