3.127 Describing and identifying things: complementation

If you want to describe someone or something, for example to say who or what they are or what qualities they have, you use one of a special set of verbs. These verbs are called link verbs or copulas.

• Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.
• The station seemed a very small one.
• He looked English.
• I became enormously fond of her.

The most common link verbs are 'be', 'become', 'look', 'remain', and 'seem'.