wide range of linking verbs
Point 48 in the categories of VERBS & linking is defined as:
wide range of linking verbs with complements
(seem|taste|remain|appear) + adjective or noun phrase are among the example sentences given. We can imagine that all the sense verbs will be included, but to keep this post focussed, we will cover only these 4 vocabulary items.
APPEAR
A search for nouns up to 4 spaces to the right on iWeb corpus:
1 [COURT] 20218
2 [LIST] 10943
3 [SCREEN] 9728
4 [TIME] 8479
5 [PAGE] 8437
6 [TOP] 6026
7 [SITE] 4269
8 [SEARCH] 4118
9 [RESULT] 3852
10 [SIDE] 3752
REMAIN
1 SAME (DA ) 74793
2 SEEN (VVN ) 35000
3 UNCHANGED (JJ ) 29974
4 ACTIVE (JJ ) 20244
5 INTACT (JJ ) 17938
6 ANONYMOUS (JJ ) 15995
7 SILENT (JJ ) 15444
8 RELATIVELY (RR ) 13414
9 UNCLEAR (JJ ) 13199
10 CONSTANT (JJ_NN1@ ) 12864
SEEM
A search for adjectives up to 4 spaces to the right on iWeb corpus:
1 [GOOD] 19727
2 [OBVIOUS] 12499
3 [ABLE] 1088, 14 [DAUNTING] 10039, 5 [BIG] 10038, 6 [ONLY] 8923, 7 [STRANGE] 8842, 8 [BAD] 8745, 9 [EASY] 8494, 10 [SMALL] 8165
11 [ODD] 8155
12 [GREAT] 7744
13 [LIKELY] 7615
14 [SIMPLE] 7452
15 [IMPOSSIBLE] 6722
16 [DIFFERENT] 6687, 17 [HIGH] 6490, 18 [OVERWHELMING] 6356, 19 [REAL] 6120, 20 [HAPPY] 5889
*We also want to couple ‘seem’ with vocabulary just under the B2 level (not too easy or too hard):
TASTE
A search for any word to the right:
1 GOOD (JJ ) 39228
2 BUDS (NN2 ) 26580
3 MOUTH (NN1 ) 10087
4 DELICIOUS (JJ ) 10039
5 AMAZING (JJ ) 7855
6 TEXTURE (NN1 ) 7791
7 SALT (NN1 ) 6663
8 SWEET (JJ ) 6174
9 FRESH (JJ ) 5932
10 WINE (NN1 ) 4461
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