... word‘‘demonstrative’’ if you think of these words as ‘‘dem-onstrating’’something, in a way, pointing to something.Test yourself 23.1Underlinethedemonstrativepronounineachofthesentencesbelow.Sample: ... 18, smell is a linking verb; it helps to tell us something about the dog but he’s notactually doing anything – he’s being something, namely, smelly.When a verb is used as a linking verb, it can ... helping verb and a mainverb. Which comes ¢rst? You can see that the main verb always comes after the help-ing verb.Quick tip 31.2If a sentence has both a main verb and a helping verb, the main...