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
By means of this representation, and the peculiar nature of the attribute, the verb is distinguished from the mere logical copula, with which it is liable to be confounded if these ideas are not understood.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
Some logicians, among whom may be mentioned Hobbes, state this distinction differently; they recognize only one form of copula, is, and attach the negative sign to the predicate.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
If it must not be left out altogether, and we cannot put it with the copula, we have a choice between the two terms.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
