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Meanings of linking verb in anglès

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verbo de ligação
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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"
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The round copper copula, green with age, stabbed the night sky.
House of Bathory
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As a verb, it does duty as predicate and copula combined.
The Soul of the Far East
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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...
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There are two kinds of copula, one for affirmative and one for negative statements.
Deductive Logic
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The want of a copula is another instance of the primitive character of the tongue.
The Soul of the Far East
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But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
An English Grammar
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Tom continued to strut spasmodically, making vulgar copulative motions.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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The reproductive apparatus comprises the different organs of sex (embryonic glands, sexual ducts, and copulative organs).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
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And he underlines in red ink the word "however," perhaps as mysterious a copulative as has ever appeared in British prose.
On Something
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Conjunctions are divided into two sorts, the Copulative and Disjunctive.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures / Accompanied by a compendi...
Translations for linking verb
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còpula