The copulative verbs are intransitive, since they take no object.
Most of the other copulative verbs may be used in some sense in which they cease to be copulative.
Frame sentences in which the same verbs are notcopulative (§ 215).
Here we have a phrase, in earnest, used in the predicate to modify the noun man, and connected with the subject by the copulativeverb is.
In this sentence the clause, which I enjoyed, is an adjective clause modifying the noun book, which is used as the predicate complement with the copulative verb was.
Determine whether they arecopulative verbs, relative pronouns, prepositions, co-ordinate conjunctions or subordinate conjunctions.
Never use an adverb in place of an adjective to complete a copulative verb.
The copulative verb is not a pure connective, for it serves another purpose in the sentence.
Noun clauses may also be used as the predicate complement with a copulative verb.
So we often find an adjective used in the predicate with a copulative verb showing what is asserted of the subject.
The noun or adjective or phrase used to complete the meaning of the copulative verb is called a predicate complement.
Another very common error is that of using an adverb instead of an adjective with the copulative verb.
The complete predicate, then, is the copulative verb with its predicate complement and all its modifiers.
You will recall, in our study of the copulative verb be, that we found it was simply a connecting word, connecting that which followed the verb with its subject.
The conjunctions, copulative or disjunctive, affirmative or negative, must be used with a due regard to their own import, and to the true idiom of the language.
The Copulative Conjunction serves to connect words or clauses, so as to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, or a consequence.
The Conjunction Copulative serves to connect or to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, &c.
The copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions operate differently on the verb.
I do not see that the copulative and is here ungrammatical; but if we prefer a disjunctive, ought it not to be or rather than nor?
The Conjunction Copulative serves to connect or continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, &c.
As is sometimes a relative pronoun, sometimes a conjunctive adverb, and sometimes a copulative conjunction.
It is by no means clear why such distinctions as those between simple and complex, conditioned and unconditioned, should be ignored, and why the copulative judgment should not be recognised as well as the hypothetical.
We cannot affirm or deny without saying, is, or is not; and this is copulative being.
The ideas of identity and distinction originate in the ideas of being and of not-being; and thus the idea of copulative being, which affirms the identity of a predicate with a subject, flows also in a manner from the idea of substantive being.
The substantive simply expresses the existence; the copulative a determination, a mode of existing.
The reproductive apparatus comprises the different organs of sex (embryonic glands, sexual ducts, and copulative organs).
The structure of the external sexual organs, the copulative organs that convey the fecundating sperm from the male to the female organism in the act of copulation, is also peculiar to the mammals.
Copulative conjunctions denote union, and connect both the sentences and their meaning.
In these cases the correlation between the sensitive forms of energy in the copulative organs and the psychic functions of the central nervous system has been remarkably developed.
At the outer opening of these conducting canals special copulative organs are developed, as a rule.
While the zygospore is increasing in size, the suspender of the smaller copulative cell becomes a rounded and stipitate utricle, often divided at the base by a septum, and which attains almost to the size of the zygospore.
The suspender of the larger copulative cell preserves its primitive form and becomes scarcely any larger.
They are chiefly of two sorts, the Copulative and Disjunctive.
Every articulate language is composed of substantive, adjective and copulative ideas.
The copulative or enumerative conjunctions, have only two degrees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copulative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
