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2.2. The compound nominal predicate (складений 1менний присудок).
The peculiarity of all eastern-Slavonic languages, including Ukrainian, is the fact that they mostly do not use the linking verb бути in the present tense: Скромшсть - його характерна риса. In English the linking verb be is never omitted since it is caused by the necessity to finish the sentence structurally.
Among linking verbs of the Ukrainian language the linking verb бути has the smallest lexical load. The rest of linking words point towards the character of the realization of some characteristics of the subject expressed by the nominal part of the predicate that is predicative.
According to their meaning Ukrainian linking verbs are subdivided into such main groups:

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1) Linking verbs showing the availability of a certain
characteristic or state or the name of some object: бути, значити,
зватися, називатися: Бона була вдовою.

2. 
   Linking verbs showing that the object characteristic is the process of formation and is new to it: стати, ставати, робитися, зробитися, опинитися: Дуже ти став розумний.
   
3. 
   Linking verbs showing the preservation of the previous state: лишатися, остатися: Лице його зоставалося спокшне.
   
4. 
   Linking verbs showing the characteristic feature as unreal or ascribed: здаватися, вважатися, уявлятися: Bin здавався мет хоробрым [5; 126-127].
   

The peculiarity of English linking verbs is the availability of such of them that are maximally expressing only the grammar meaning, not a lexical one: be, become, grow.
The classification of English linking verbs is in many ways similar to the mentioned Ukrainian one:
1) Linking verbs of "existence" ("буття") showing the
availability of a certain characteristic, its belonging to a certain class:
be, feel, go, come, stand: The boy felt cold.

2. 
   Linking verbs of "retaining" ("збереження") of a certain characteristic: remain, keep, hold, stay, rest, continue: They hold strong is spite of difficulties.
   
3. 
   Linking verbs of "becoming" ("становления"): become, turn, get, grow, come, go, make (and others): Becoming aware of the approaching danger she turned pale.