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 proposition is composed of two terms and the copula, one term constituting the subject of the proposition and the other the predicate.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
When, as in mathematics, important consequences seem to follow from them, such really follow from the tacit assumption, through the ambiguity of the copula, of the real existence of the object named.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)
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
The first division of propositions is into Affirmative and Negative, the copula in the latter being is not.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)
