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Значения термина linking verb на английском

португальский
verbo de ligação
каталонский
còpula

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

verbo de ligação
Синонимы
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
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...
Translations for linking verb
португальский
verbo de ligação
каталонский
còpula