Cinda Ackerman Klickna taught English in Springfield, Ill., and served on the NEA Board of Directors and as president of the Illinois Education Association. She authored the children’s book, Out of ...

As a teacher, identifying parts of speech can seem like a daunting task. Yet, teaching or reviewing the concept of linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns is important in order to ...

How well do you know your verbs? You may know verbs as the part of speech that describe an action, but linking verbs play a different role in a sentence. Like helping verbs, linking verbs are a type ...