Linking Verbs. Linking Verbs are verbs that express a state of being. They are called linking verbs because they link the subject of the sentence to a word or phrase in the predicate that renames or describes the subject (tells us more about the subject's state of being). Examples of Linking Verbs:
Dawes Act of 1887 An 1887 law terminating tribal ownership of land and allotting some parcels of land to individual Indians with the remainder of the land left open for white settlement. It included provisions for Indian education and eventual citizenship.
This opened 'surplus lands' to non-Indian settlements and rail road development. The Dawes Act of 1887 brought into focus 4 primary concepts and which were believed to be the objectives of this act. Allotment of Land Allotment of land in severalty to individual Indians was basic premise of this act.