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Meanings of copula in anglès

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còpula

An equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence.

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        Examples for "copulative"
        Examples for "copulative"
        1
        But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
        An English Grammar
        2
        Tom continued to strut spasmodically, making vulgar copulative motions.
        The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
        3
        The reproductive apparatus comprises the different organs of sex (embryonic glands, sexual ducts, and copulative organs).
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
        4
        And he underlines in red ink the word "however," perhaps as mysterious a copulative as has ever appeared in British prose.
        On Something
        5
        Conjunctions are divided into two sorts, the Copulative and Disjunctive.
        English Grammar in Familiar Lectures / Accompanied by a compendi...
        Usage of copula in anglès
        1
        The round copper copula, green with age, stabbed the night sky.
        House of Bathory
        2
        As a verb, it does duty as predicate and copula combined.
        The Soul of the Far East
        3
        He knew the correlations spat out by the Gaussian copula were a fantasy.
        The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
        4
        There are two kinds of copula, one for affirmative and one for negative statements.
        Deductive Logic
        5
        The want of a copula is another instance of the primitive character of the tongue.
        The Soul of the Far East
        6
        The females of both species remained receptive after first copula and eventually mated multiple times.
        Pubmed
        7
        His WIRED cover story on the Gaussian copula function was later turned into a tattoo.
        Wired
        8
        Logically, it is merely the copula of a judgement.
        The Critique of Pure Reason
        9
        Analyse the following propositions into subject, copula and predicate:-
        Deductive Logic
        10
        The adverbial expression which thus appears to qualify the copula is known as 'the mode.'
        Deductive Logic
        11
        For such an unnecessary part of speech as a real copula does not exist in Japanese.
        The Soul of the Far East
        12
        The Gaussian copula was, in hindsight, a disaster.
        The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
        13
        What looks at first, therefore, like a copula turns out to be merely an impersonal intransitive verb.
        The Soul of the Far East
        14
        There was no visible copula of the tablet with cones; no antennae between it and the circled shields.
        The Metal Monster
        15
        The material form of the copula is an accident of language, and a matter of indifference to logic.
        Deductive Logic
        16
        The unnecessary copula stars his pages.
        Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal...
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