English question ?

which of the following sentences contains an italicized word that's used as a predicate adjective ?





a. jerry looks at the map


b. jerry looks ill today


c. jerry looks into the microscope


d. jerry looks disdainfully at the pile of laundry

English question ?
Yes "B" is the answer; some verbs like look, seem, feel, can be either action or linking.





All the rest use look as action. Looks at the map. Looks into microscope. Looks at laundry.





Choice "B" is the only one where no one is actually looking at anything. Jerry looks ill. He appears to be ill. In this case, looks is a linking verb that links the subject Jerry with a word in the predicate, ill.





Since ill is indeed an adjective, it is therefore describing Jerry and hence called a Predicate adjective.
Reply:None of them are italicized, but option B is the only sentence with a predicate adjective.
Reply:As the first reply indicated, nothing in those phrases is italicized (you might want to use *asterisks* to indicate the word in question).





That being said, the answer is almost definitely B -- assuming *ill* is the predicate adjective.
Reply:none are italicized sorry bud
Reply:i don't think one of them contains an italicized. just choose maybe D
Reply:none of them are italicized, but I don't think it's a or c. once u update it with the italicizedness, then I'll come help.

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