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Significats de linking verb en anglès

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còpula

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

        còpula
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        Examples for "copula"
        Examples for "copula"
        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
        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...
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