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 heaping up of substantives without a copula is not uncommon in Lucretius.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.
We may, indeed, say, ½a friendship has long existed between them,¸ instead of saying, ½there has long been a friendship between them;¸ but in this case, exist is not a mere copula.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
It is apt to be supposed that the copula is something more than a mere sign of predication; that it also signifies existence.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
Dismissing, for the present, the copula, of which more will be said hereafter, every proposition, then, consists of at least two names—brings together two names, in a particular manner.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
