linking verb
noun
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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We were told to enunciate our dropped consonants and lose our universal “they” pronoun and resurrect the “is” and “are” linking verbs that we’d so efficiently eliminated from our sentences.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2020