What kind of word is "am"?

0 Hello, Guest, 02br
00"am" is the first person (singular) of the verb "to be" 0-

0 Yes, that's right. But we can expand this question, by classifying these sentences into two classes. 02br
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00(1) I am silly. / I am a readhead. 02br
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00Here 00 works as a so-called copula verb, I think. Both 00 and 01a00 represent a set of individuals. 01i00 refers some particular individual x. And 00 indicates

0 Thank you, Roro! 0-

0 Yes; further to Pieanne's and Roro's comments, in sentence #2, 'am' acts as an auxiliary verb. 02br
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00We use the appropriate present tense of the verb 'to be' + the present participle to form the present progressive tense: 02br
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00'I am / going to the store.' 02br
00'He is / going to the store.' 02br
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0 Hello guys 02br
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00I read your answers with interests. I would like to ask some questions in this occasion. It's also a kind of question relating to so called "parallelism". 02br
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00(EX-1) She is ready and waiting you over there. 02br
00(EX-2) She is clever and solving math problems. 02br
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00Which

0 Hello Paco, how are you? 02br
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00Q1: I think the 'zeugma' here depends on a double use of 'is': both as copula and auxiliary (she is ready/she is waiting). 02br
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00Q2 is trickier... 02br
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00My thought here is that 'ready and waiting' is a natural sequence; she gets ready, she waits. Both events are specific: the 'is' in ea

0 Hello MrP 02br
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00Thank you for the quick reply. Your reply is really 'pedantic' in using "zeugma" (Greek grammar term) and "double-take" (US-originated phrase) in parallel. 05002br
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00So you mean a sylleptic use of "be" is inappropriate when the "aspect" or "durativeness" of the adjctive used does not match the present progressive form. Right

0 Hello, paco. I've just waken up and have no idea yet. But what is the point? The definition of the term...? Acceptability of these sentences...? 02br
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00There is one long-discussed problematic sentence: 02br
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00# The temperature is ninety and rising. 02br
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00Does this sentence concern your question..? Sorry I've just got

0 Hello, paco, I've forgot to ask you. You said 00. But I don't know ... is this linguistic term? Simply I've never heard this word used as a strict linguistic term in such a context. 02br
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00I will check today in the library this word. 0-

0 Hello Roro 02br
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00"Good morning"? May I ask where you live? 02br
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00I think I am discussing a sylleptic use of "be" in a sentence coordinating an adjective and a verbal phrase of ~ing form. I feel we might regard 00 as a kind of 00. This is because ~ing and an adjective can be parallelly linked with the subject by only one "be", though t