copula
Example Sentences
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In one episode the shirtless tribal leader Khal Drogo delivered a monologue for two and a half minutes in Dothraki, with its subject-verb-object structure and no copula, or linking verb.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011
The theme in confirmation must always admit of being expressed in a logical ——, with subject, predicate, and copula.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
We may, indeed, say, ½a friendship has long existed between them,¸ instead of saying, ½there has long been a friendship between them;¸ but in this case, exist is not a mere copula.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
He thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
The logicians will not see that their formal proposition, "Every X is Y," is material in three points, the degree of assertion, the quantity of the proposition, and the copula.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
