Omitted Copula in Context

Level 6

Irish permits omitted copular material in established answers, exclamations and presentational structures. Do not treat every missing is as an accidental omission.

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Irish permits omitted copular material in established answers, exclamations and presentational structures. Do not treat every missing is as an accidental omission.

Some established presentational, answer and exclamatory constructions omit overt copular material. Seo Nóra is a normal presentation, not a broken Tá Nóra... sentence. Learn the complete construction; the existence of ellipsis does not make arbitrary deletion of is acceptable in every clause.

Examples (3)

  1. Seo Nóra.

    This is Nóra.

  2. Sin é.

    That is it.

  3. Maith thú!

    Well done!

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Omitted Copula in ContextLevel 6

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Recognize a complete presentation before analyzing omitted copular material elsewhere.

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