In English primary education grammar courses, a copula is often called a linking verb.

" but please note that a linking verb has nothing to do with these so called " Be "- verbs ( see below ).

In biochemistry, ligase ( from the Latin verb ligāre — " to bind " or " to glue together ") is an enzyme that can catalyze the joining of two large molecules by forming a new chemical bond, usually with accompanying hydrolysis of a small chemical group dependent to one of the larger molecules or the enzyme catalyzing the linking together of two compounds .... e. g.: Enzymes which catalyze joining of C-O, C-S, C-N etc.

These verbs precede nouns or adjectives in a sentence, which become predicate nouns and predicate adjectives similar to those that function with a linking verb.

The usual way of connecting the subject and predicate of a categorical sentence as Aristotle does in On Interpretation is by using a linking verb e. g. P is S. However, in the Prior Analytics Aristotle rejects the usual form in favor of three of his inventions: 1 ) P belongs to S, 2 ) P is predicated of S and 3 ) P is said of S. Aristotle does not explain why he introduces these innovative expressions but scholars conjecture that the reason may have been that it facilitates the use of letters instead of terms avoiding the ambiguity that results in Greek when letters are used with the linking verb.

Some grammarians have argued and persuaded some educators that the correct answer should be " I " or " It is I " because " is " is a linking verb and " I " is a predicate nominative, and up until a few centuries ago spoken English used pronouns in the subjective case in such sentences.

The linking verb 是 shì ( to be ) is used with adjectives in the pattern — Noun + 是 + Adj + 的 — to state or emphasize a fact or a perceived fact.

Historians routinely remove the Filipino linking verb “ si ”, analogous to the English “ am ”, from recorded names in this era, because Spanish writers who had not yet learned the local languages often mistakenly attached it to Filipino names.

The subject and predicative nominal must be connected by a linking verb, also called a copula.

However, such a linking of archaeologically defined cultural entities with linguistic ones cannot be proven and it has been suggested that the increase of settlement finds in the period is more likely to have been associated with an economic boom related to the warming of climate.

This same pattern is found again in line 41 (" I cannot see what flowers are at my feet ") with the " a " of " cannot " linking with the " a " of " at " and the " ee " of " see " linking with the " ee " of " feet ".

However, if multiple DLLs have the same desired base address, a program cannot relocate them all to that base offset and must specify new offsets when linking.

The exterior is not simply connected, unlike the exterior of the usual round sphere ; a loop linking a torus in the above construction cannot be shrunk to a point without touching the horned sphere.

Between the North African coast road running along the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt to Morocco on the one hand ( which cannot be driven continuously ; the Morocco-Algeria border is closed ), and the Trans-Caprivi highway and the roads linking it to the east coast on the other side ( a span of about 5700 km ), there are no paved highways crossing the African continent between east and west.

In June 2011, following his release from Stoke City, Faye signed for Championship side West Ham United on a free transfer linking up with manager Sam Allardyce for a third time and he said: " I am very happy to be here at West Ham – this is a great club, a big club and I cannot wait to get started here ," Faye told the club website.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

Starting in 1938, Post Office Telephones laid dedicated cables, for numerous telephone and telegraph circuits, from the nearby repeater station at Fenny Stratford ( on Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west, later to be designated the A5 ).

Various cross linking agents like dopaquinone, embelin, potassium embelate and 5-O-methyl embelin could be developed as potential

When there are many different groups within a nation, citizenship may be the only real bond which unites everybody as equals without discrimination — it is a " broad bond " linking " a person with the state " and gives people a universal identity as a legal member of a specific nation.

This allows a simulated census to be conducted by linking several different administrative databases at an agreed time.

The record linking to perform an administrative census would not be possible without large databases being stored on computer systems.

Parts of this road / trail network can be developed into an arterial road system linking the hinterland communities with each other and to the main road network.

A stub program can be created by linking to the appropriate stub files provided with GDB, which implement the target side of the communication protocol.

In some cases, hypertext may be detrimental to the development of appealing stories ( in the case of hypertext Gamebooks ), where ease of linking fragments may lead to non-cohesive or incomprehensible narratives.

Two interesting experiments were devised by Newton to demonstrate how these forces could be discovered, thereby revealing to an observer that they were not in an inertial frame: the example of the tension in the cord linking two spheres rotating about their center of gravity, and the example of the curvature of the surface of water in a rotating bucket.

For example, the magnetic flux linking these turns can be increased by coiling the conductor around a material with a high permeability such as iron.

The Fourth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge is under construction and is hoped to be completed by December 2012 linking Kunming to Bokeo, Laos and Chiang Rai.

Programs that included this function by static linking would have to be re-linked first.

A summer bus service, the Transmoor link from Plymouth to Exeter and vice versa, passes through the town and there is a daytime service linking Princetown to Yelverton and Tavistock, but in general public transport is poor and any visitors hoping to visit Plymouth or the nearby town of Tavistock via bus in the evening will be disappointed.

Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the World Wide Web, as evidenced by his WorldWideWeb editor / browser, was close to a peer-to-peer design in that it assumed each user of the web would be an active editor and contributor creating and linking content to form an interlinked web of links.

Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the World Wide Web was close to a P2P network in that it assumed each user of the web would be an active editor and contributor, creating and linking content to form an interlinked " web " of links.

The railway first came to Berlin in 1838, with the opening of the Potsdamer Bahnhof, terminus of a 26 km line linking the city with Potsdam, opened throughout by 29 October ( in 1848 the line would be extended to Magdeburg and beyond ).

It is also possible for some components of a piece of software to be written and compiled separately, in an arbitrary programming language, and later integrated into the software using a technique called library linking.

The failure of a transmission line linking any peripheral node to the central node will result in the isolation of that peripheral node from all others, but the rest of the systems will be unaffected.

Folklore often identifies a green sky with tornadoes, and though the phenomenon may be associated with severe weather, there is no evidence linking it specifically with tornadoes.

On the Internet, pseudonymous remailers utilise cryptography that achieves persistent pseudonymity, so that two-way communication can be achieved, and reputations can be established, without linking physical identities to their respective pseudonyms.

When two traces run parallel, an electrical signal in one can be coupled into the other through electromagnetic induction by magnetic field lines from one linking the other ; this is called crosstalk.

There followed a series of speculative reports linking reelin's genetic variation and interactions to schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, autism and other highly complex dysfunctions.

A characteristic of Nash's plan for Regent Street was that it followed an irregular path linking Portland Place to the north with Carlton House, London ( replaced by Nash's Carlton House Terrace ( 1827 – 1833 )) to the south.

This tale went on to achieve greater currency because its inventor linked Brutus to the diaspora of heroes that followed the Trojan War, and thus provided raw material which later mythographers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Michael Drayton, and John Milton could draw upon, linking the settlement of Britain to the heroic age of Greek literature, for their several and diverse literary purposes.

Through time, trunk roads and motorways followed the same canal corridors through the Falkirk area, linking the town with the rest of Scotland.

During the Roman occupation, a Roman road followed the course of the river Lune, linking the forts at Low Borrow Bridge ( near Tebay ) and Over Burrow ( south of Kirkby Lonsdale ).

The first was a branch of the Great Western Railway from Old Hill to Halesowen, opened in 1878, followed in 1883 by a section jointly owned by the Great Western and the Midland Railway ( though worked mostly by the latter ), linking the town with Northfield on the Midland Railway's Birmingham to Bristol main line, with intermediate stations at Rubery, Hunnington, and a workmen's halt at Longbridge serving the car factories ( not to be confused with the present Longbridge station ).

Each Cyberchase episode is followed by " Cyberchase For Real ", a live-action educational supplement linking concepts learned in the show to real life experiences.

This was followed by The Return of the Psammead in 1993, with the Psammead the only character linking the two series.

Their route followed the ridge linking Abi Gamin and Kamet.

The transfer of their activities to Trier followed the construction of Agrippa's road linking Trier with Reims which bypassed the Titelberg.

In an interview that followed the publication of Common Ground he gave some hints about his impending suicide, linking it with his career as a writer.

This was known as the Romsey Rail-Link service and followed the same route as the X66, linking the station with Romsey via Ampfield but with limited stops.

Twice-weekly low-fare, high-quality scheduled services linking Fort Lauderdale in Florida with London Gatwick were inaugurated on 5 July 1996, followed by similar services linking Orlando with Manchester and Glasgow Prestwick.

The winding route, which followed the easiest-to-construct links rather than linking main settlements in a straight line, was known as ' Castleman's Corkscrew ' after Edward Castleman, a major figure in the enterprise.

Laid out with long vistas and avenues of trees at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the Midway in part followed the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the creators of New York City's famous Central Park, but without his impracticable dream of creating a Venetian canal linking the lagoon systems of Jackson and Washington parks.

The trail can be followed across the profile of the lion, eventually linking up with the MacLehose Trail.

The phenomenon of intrusive R is an overgeneralizing reinterpretation of linking R into an r-insertion rule that affects any word that ends in the non-high vowels,,, or ; when such a word is closely followed by another word beginning in a vowel sound, an is inserted between them, even when no final was historically present.

This followed speculation linking her to a similar move for the Progressive Democrats.

He is being followed by Klingferm's killer, who plants false evidence on him linking him to the murder of a senior politician, but the police destroy all this evidence themselves.

There are a few traces at the wall linking St. Martin's Castle with Turgesius ' Tower, and which followed the line of Michael Street and Broad Street, about sixteen to twenty metres back from the present eastern frontage of these streets.

The 1873 linking of the 29th Foot with the 36th was followed by their amalgamation into a single regiment under the Childers Reforms.

This was followed by reports linking Fenlon to the vacant hot-seat at Derry City left by Stephen Kenny, who had departed the Brandywell Stadium to take up the managers position at Scottish side Dunfermline Athletic.