The linking verb, otherwise known as the copula verb, is was. Assassinated is the main verb, while was is the linking one.
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A simple sentence consists of <u><em>only one clause</em></u>. A compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses. A complex sentence has at least one independent clause plus at least one dependent clause. A set of words with no independent clause may be an incomplete sentence, also called a sentence fragment.
