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	Verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A copula is a word that is used to describe its subject, or to equate or liken the subject with its predicate.
		Because copulas do not describe actions being performed, they are usually analysed outside the transitive/intransitive distinction.
		Some languages (the Semitic family, Russian, Chinese, Sanskrit, and others) can omit the simple copula equivalent of "to be", especially in the present tense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verb (858 words)

	were - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Used as a copula in such senses as:
		Our Living Language In place of the inflected forms of be, such as is and are, used in Standard English, African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and some varieties of Southern American English may use zero copula or an invariant be, as in
		As an identifying feature of the vernacular of many African Americans, invariant be in recent years has been frequently seized on by writers and commentators trying to imitate or parody Black speech.
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=were (1158 words)

	Laboratoire de sociolinguistique - Publications
		Walker, James A. Walker, James A. Rephrasing the copula : contracted and zero copula in African Nova Scotian English.
		Walker, James A. Rephrasing the copula : contraction and zero in early African American English.
		The decreolization of Canadian English : copula contraction and prosody.
	www.sociolinguistique.uottawa.ca /publications.html (1022 words)

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