2. Which sentence contains a linking verb?

As the war progressed, General Robert E. Lee became increasingly concerned about invading the North.

The battle of Antietam changed Union policy regarding participation in the war.

Abraham Lincoln, a famous president during the Civil War, held a consistent view of an undivided Union.

Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general, helped the North win the Civil War.

In this excerpt from robert burns’s poem “a red, red rose,” which two lines are written in iambic trimeter? (an iambic trimeter pattern contains an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. the pattern repeats three times per line.) o my luve’s like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in june: o my luve’s like the melodie that’s sweetly play’d in tune! as fair art thou, my bonnie lass, so deep in luve am i: and i will luve thee still, my dear, till a’ the seas gang dry: