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