Hi! Im having trouble with Verbs in grammar and i was wondering if someone could help me out. Here's what i was given :

Underline the linking verbs in the following sentences. Highlight predicate adjectives in green and predicate nouns in yellow..

1. The car appeared old and rusty.

2. Steve sickened at the thought of missing school.

3. The roads appeared glassy after the ice storm.

4. My little brother begged for the video.

5. The old stairway was long and drafty.

6. The authors were extremely late to the event.

7. Sonja became an absolute expert at astronomy.

8. The roast tasted very dry and bland.

9. The highway was an old train route.

10. The apples tasted bitter to everyone but me.

1) earth's crust is made up of relatively rigid plates that ride atop earth's hot, semiliquid mantle. (2) the plates are called tectonic because they're in constant motion. (3) they can move because earth's mantle is a very hot and semiliquid fluid called magma. (4) volcanoes are a result of magma rising up or erupting through a plate, particularly where plate boundaries are moving against each other. (5) also, when plates slide against each other, causing friction along adjacent plate boundaries, earthquakes frequently occur. (6) therefore, we often find volcanoes and earthquakes along plate boundaries. (7) plates may also collide. (8) when that happens, mountain ranges are formed. (9) for example, the collision of the plate carrying the indian subcontinent created the himalayan mountains when it collided with the asian plate. which statement about this paragraph is accurate?

Discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?

Choose the sentence that is not logically connected in the paragraph. (1) doctor henderson was a kind and gentle man. (2) his patients loved and respected him. his death made many of them sad. (3) as a young man, he decided to become a doctor and pursue a life of healing and comforting. (4) his work will long be remembered by the citizens of battle creek, michigan.