Huddleston and Pullum (2005) write “the verb agrees with the subject” (p. 31), and for quantificational nouns “the form of the verb depends on the … NP [noun phrase] that is complement to the ...

Look, seem and appear are all copular verbs and can be used in a similar way to indicate the impression you get from something or somebody. Copula verbs join adjectives (or noun compounds) to subjects ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper describes the present tense copular clauses in Muher. Copular clauses are minor sentence types in which their predicates are not ...