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Meanings of copula in English
Portuguese
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còpula An equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence.
Synonyms
Examples for "copulative"
Examples for "copulative"
1
But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
2
Tom continued to strut spasmodically, making vulgar copulative motions.
3
The reproductive apparatus comprises the different organs of sex (embryonic glands, sexual ducts, and copulative organs).
4
And he underlines in red ink the word "however," perhaps as mysterious a copulative as has ever appeared in British prose.
5
Conjunctions are divided into two sorts, the Copulative and Disjunctive.
Usage of copula in English
1
The round copper copula, green with age, stabbed the night sky.
2
As a verb, it does duty as predicate and copula combined.
3
He knew the correlations spat out by the Gaussian copula were a fantasy.
4
There are two kinds of copula, one for affirmative and one for negative statements.
5
The want of a copula is another instance of the primitive character of the tongue.
6
The females of both species remained receptive after first copula and eventually mated multiple times.
7
His WIRED cover story on the Gaussian copula function was later turned into a tattoo.
8
Logically, it is merely the copula of a judgement.
9
Analyse the following propositions into subject, copula and predicate:-
10
The adverbial expression which thus appears to qualify the copula is known as 'the mode.'
11
For such an unnecessary part of speech as a real copula does not exist in Japanese.
12
The Gaussian copula was, in hindsight, a disaster.
13
What looks at first, therefore, like a copula turns out to be merely an impersonal intransitive verb.
14
There was no visible copula of the tablet with cones; no antennae between it and the circled shields.
15
The material form of the copula is an accident of language, and a matter of indifference to logic.
16
The unnecessary copula stars his pages.
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