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

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

In such a case as this, the verb expresses predication and nothing else, and is called a copula.

From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Huxley, Thomas Henry

The heaping up of substantives without a copula is not uncommon in Lucretius.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

Quando uterus prolabitur vel cervix producitur ita ut copula impossibilis sit, chirurgus mederi potest.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin