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• n  an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence
• s  syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence
  `and' is a copulative conjunction

• Negronia?) to what a writer in Manhattan's Vil lage Voice calls "the copulative approach," aimed at complete elimination of racial differences through intermarriage (though if .
• Peopled with anarchic flower children, a musical called Hair spills out a pornocopia of copulative verbs and scatological nouns, plus a now-celebrated nude scene in which several .
• Rock 'n' roll was not originally a "copulative verb.

• copula
• linking verb