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copula means: an equating verb (such as ‘be’ or ‘become’) that links the subject with the complement of a sentence

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copula

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒpjʊlə/Part of speech nounSorted aclopuStarts with CEnds with A0 cluesCommon crossword word

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an equating verb (such as ‘be’ or ‘become’) that links the subject with the complement of a sentence

Borrowed from Latin cōpula (“connection, linking of words”), from co- (“together”) + apere (“fasten”). Doublet of couple.

“I begin by arguing in section 2 that there are in fact at least two Celtic copulas, a grammatical copula that simply spells out tense and agreement, and a substantive copula formed on a lexically listed verbal stem.”
“The theory of conjunctively tensed copulae will be developed and stated with more precision in the following section.”
“This paper explores the position of the copula in the development of the verb system in second language acquisition of Italian.”

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