copula
Example Sentences
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In one episode the shirtless tribal leader Khal Drogo delivered a monologue for two and a half minutes in Dothraki, with its subject-verb-object structure and no copula, or linking verb.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011
Quando uterus prolabitur vel cervix producitur ita ut copula impossibilis sit, chirurgus mederi potest.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
The theme in confirmation must always admit of being expressed in a logical ——, with subject, predicate, and copula.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
He thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
A verb may be said to be Hypercategorematic, implying, as it does, not only a term, but also a copula.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
