An equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence.
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Examples for "copula"
Examples for "copula"
1The round copper copula, green with age, stabbed the night sky.
2As a verb, it does duty as predicate and copula combined.
3He knew the correlations spat out by the Gaussian copula were a fantasy.
4There are two kinds of copula, one for affirmative and one for negative statements.
5The want of a copula is another instance of the primitive character of the tongue.
1But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec.
2Tom continued to strut spasmodically, making vulgar copulative motions.
3The reproductive apparatus comprises the different organs of sex (embryonic glands, sexual ducts, and copulative organs).
4And he underlines in red ink the word "however," perhaps as mysterious a copulative as has ever appeared in British prose.
5Conjunctions are divided into two sorts, the Copulative and Disjunctive.
Translations for linking verb