linking verbs, passives, questions

Question 1

when can we omit or include TO BE

Answer 1

after the following verbs: appear, turn out, seem, prove, look
BUT
to be is included before the adj. ; alive, alone, asleep, awake and after verbs ending with -ing
AND
we leave out to be when we give opinion of sth or sb: she appears a very nice person/ they turned out efficient workers

Question 2

get or become?

Answer 2

get difficult/ill/interested/pregnant/suspicious/worried/unhappy, in imperatives( don’t you get angry with me!), get changed/dressed/married
become - more formal, become recognised, adapted to, apparent, aware, convinced, infected, irrelevant, obvious

Question 3

when do we use go?

Answer 3

• colours (also turn green ex.)
  -go deaf/blind/bald// wild/crazy/mad, go bad, go off/rotten, go bust (of a company), go wrong, go dead/missing, lights/bullets/guns/machines go off,go off on holiday, alarm clock goes off, milk/food goes off, go berserk , the line goes dead(put down the handset), go dead( numb)

Question 4

verbs that can be used in passives in BOTH different ways( with a preposition)

Answer 4

give, lend, read, teach, ask, throw, award, send, hand, offer

Question 5

two-and-three word verbs

Answer 5

1. have passive forms- look after, carry out, disapprove of, hold over, talk down to, phase out, look up to,deprive
2. don’t have passive forms- come up against(difficulties/problems), brush up on, cast your mind back, get sth down, take after
3. certain senses: put out the fire + put out your hand-
   call up to join the military + call up ring up sb -
   call back ask to return + call back -
   let in a person + let in rain -
   let out a person+ let out a sound -

Question 6

=sports vocab

Answer 6

have seats in the back/front row of, stretch of track, walk across/along the tracks, a track event, run track, change track, follow the track of, on the wrong/right track, be engaged in a career track, be on track to, off the beaten track, make tracks, athletics track
the main stadium has been designed to accommodate many different sports
temporary stands will be taken down
basketball arena, hold rowing competition
a VENUE FOR, A CONFERENCE/CONCERT VENUE