AboutDebra Duenas Expertise I can answer any questions on grammar and writing, creative writing, or literature. If you are doing it for your English or Language Arts class, I should be able to give you a hand. I can also help with poetry analysis.
Experience I have taught 8th, 9th, and 10th grade English and Literature, and Communications. And, oddly, 7th grade Math! I am presently a school librarian.
Education/Credentials BA in Secondary Education
BA in English
MFA in Creative Writing
It depends on the verb and what you want to say. Generally, the verb is the base of the predicate which is preceeded by the subject. Technically nothing HAS to follow an action verb.
The cat meowed. meowed is the action and nothing more HAS to be said, but you can add information to make it more clear. The cat moewed because it was hungry. Now we know more about that cat.
Linking verbs need something by definition. They LINK a subject to information about that subject.
The cat is...ah, is what??? We have to link IS to something to make sense. The cat IS hungry. The most common word to follow is an adjective but doesn't HAVE to be...
The cat IS up the tree. Here IS is followed by a prepositional phrase.
