[Grammar] linking verb "are"

[vaibhavmaskar]

Election are next year.

Whom is the linking verb linking here (Adj or location)?

 

[emsr2d2]

Elections/The elections are next year.

[strike]Whom[/strike] What is the linking verb linking to here - the adjective or the location? [strike](Adj or location)[/strike]

Note my corrections to your post above, in red.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Are you asking if "are" links "elections" with "next" or "elections" with "???". I can't see a location in your original sentence.

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

Linkink verb links to adjective, noun or location but here I don't understand whom does it link to?

 

[bhaisahab]

Linking verb links to adjective, noun or location but here I don't understand which it links to?

No location is mentioned.

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

So what is the "next year" Adjective or noun?

 

[Raymott]

So what is the "next year" Adjective or noun?

"Next year" is an adjective and a noun. But "are" is not a linking verb in your sentence.
"Elections are next year." doesn't mean 'Elections = next year". It means "Elections are [due to be held] next year" or "Elections are [scheduled for] next year", or something similar.

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

So it is reduced clause.

And

which (does) it links to?

Is use of "does" incorrect here? why?

 

[Raymott]

So it is reduced clause.
I'm not sure it's a reduced clause. I'd call it an ellipsis. Consider, "Elections which are due next year will be in April". This reduces to "Elections due next year will be in April". "Which are" is omitted, leaving a phrase where before reduction there is a clause. In your sentence, a clause is not reduced to a phrase because "are" remains.

And
which (does) it links to?
Is use of "does" incorrect here? why?

I don't understand your second question. If you're asking what "are" links to, I've just said that it's not acting as a linking verb. It doesn't link to anything.

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

My second question is different.
It is use of "does" in sentence because I wrote "which does it links to?" But bhaisahab removed "does".

 

[Raymott]

My second qiestion is different.
Then you should start a new thread if you want to ask about the use of "does".
It is use of "does" in sentence beacuse I wrote "which does it links to?" But bhaisahab removed "does".

"Does" is right, but the correct sentence is, "What does it link to?"

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/learn-english/grammar/questions-yes-no/ (source)

 

[emsr2d2]

The only relevant thing I can see on the page that link goes to is one of the example sentences "Are elections next year?" In BrE, I consider that wrong. It should be "Are the elections next year?" or "Are there elections next year?"

Ignoring that for a moment, I don't know why you sent us to look at that page. You keep asking about "are" as a linking verb. You have been told at least twice that it is not a linking verb. It is the use of the present tense to denote the future. There is nothing on the page of that website that suggests that "are" is a linking verb.

 

[Tdol]

The verb be isn't only a linking verb. In the site you link to, it starts by looking at be/have/do in questions- in this case, be is an auxiliary (helping) verb.

 

[Rover_KE]

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