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