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To be verbs are things that do not show action. For example, The grandmother is nice.. Is is the to be verb in that sentence. A trick to remember that is Grandmother=nice. If the equals sign makes sense in between the words, then it's a form of a being verb. Sometimes, verbs like is can be used as part of a verb phrase and be an action verb.
To see the various kinds of verbs in English, see here. The State of Being Verbs. Is is a verb? Is is what is known as a state of being verb. State of being verbs do not express any specific activity or action but instead describe existence. The most common state of being verb is to be, along with its conjugations (is, am, are, was, were, being, been).