Linking verbs are neither active nor passive and act like an 'equals' (or inequality) sign. By far the most common linking verb is 'to be'. Use linking verbs to describe a 'state of being'.
A monthly market that comes to life the weekend before the second Monday of each month, Bowieâs Second Monday Trade Days have been a Bowie fixture for over a century. In fact, in some ways, Second Monday Trade Days put the malls to shame.
Illness: Bowie (pictured performing in Hartford, Connecticut, in September 1995) had been diagnosed with incurable liver cancer in 2014 but kept it a closely-guarded secret. Producer Tony Visconti, who worked with the star on most of his albums, said he had known for a year that Bowie was dying.