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copula
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copula
Logic the often unexpressed link between the subject and predicate terms of a categorial proposition, as are in all men are mortal


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We have a chart with the headings role, tasks and tactical employment, and, by God, we are going to fill that chart with abstractions and copulatives.
An additional writing activity to be completed as homework might be to provide captions to a cartoon in which it is evident that the student must choose between the correct copulative verb--set or estar--followed by an adjective.
The nominal sentence is found in ancient Semitic (including Aramaic), which actually lacks a copulative form of the verb to be, and in Greek and Latin, where it co-exists with alternative verbal expressions employing esti and est, respectively, both forms equivalent to English is.
 
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