What is the definition of "is"?
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IS:\nVERB: \nThird person singular present indicative of be.\n\nBE:\nVERB: \nFirst and third person singular past indicative was   (wz, wz; wz when unstressed) KEY  , second person singular and plural and first and third person plural past indicative were   (wûr) KEY  , past subjunctive were , past participle been   (bn) KEY  , present participle be·ing   (bng) KEY  , first person singular present indicative am   (m) KEY  , second person singular and plural and first and third person plural present indicative are   (är) KEY  , third person singular present indicative is   (z) KEY  , present subjunctive be \nVERB: \nintr. \n\nTo exist in actuality; have life or reality: I think, therefore I am. \n\nTo occupy a specified position: The food is on the table. \nTo remain in a certain state or situation undisturbed, untouched, or unmolested: Let the children be. \nTo take place; occur: The test was yesterday. \nTo go or come: Have you ever been to Italy? Have you been home recently? \nUsed as a copula in such senses as:\nTo equal in identity: "To be a Christian was to be a Roman" (James Bryce). \nTo have a specified significance: A is excellent, C is passing. Let n be the unknown quantity. \nTo belong to a specified class or group: The human being is a primate. \nTo have or show a specified quality or characteristic: She is witty. All humans are mortal. \nTo seem to consist or be made of: The yard is all snow. He is all bluff and no bite. \nTo belong; befall: Peace be unto you. Woe is me. \nVERB: \naux. \n\nUsed with the past participle of a transitive verb to form the passive voice: The mayoral election is held annually. \nUsed with the present participle of a verb to express a continuing action: We are working to improve housing conditions. \nUsed with the infinitive of a verb to express intention, obligation, or future action: She was to call before she left. You are to make the necessary changes. \nArchaic Used with the past participle of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect tense: "Where be those roses gone which sweetened so our eyes?" (Philip Sidney). \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nETYMOLOGY: \nMiddle English ben, from Old English bon; see bheu- in Indo-European roots. See am 1 is , etc. for links to other Indo-European roots \nUsage Note: \nTraditional grammar requires the nominative form of the pronoun in the predicate of the verb be: It is I (not me); That must be they (not them), and so forth. Nearly every speaker of Modern English finds this rule difficult to follow. Even if everyone could follow it, in informal contexts the nominative pronoun often sounds pedantic and even ridiculous, especially when the verb is contracted, as in It's we. But constructions like It is me have been condemned in the classroom and in writing handbooks for so long that there seems little likelihood that they will ever be entirely acceptable in formal writing.·The traditional rule creates additional problems when the pronoun following be also functions as the object of a verb or preposition in a relative clause, as in It is not them/they that we have in mind when we talk about "crime in the streets" nowadays, where the plural pronoun serves as both the predicate of is and the object of have. In this example, 57 percent of the Usage Panel prefers the nominative form they, 33 percent prefer the objective them, and 10 percent accept both versions. Writers can usually revise their sentences to avoid this problem: They are not the ones we have in mind, We have someone else in mind, and so on. See Usage Notes at I 1, we.\nOur 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 He be working, instead of the Standard English He is usually working. As an identifying f
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this how a question, is?
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1. There are a lot of books. (example on cooking here)\n\n2. There is a lot of books.\n\nWhen the subject (Books) is plural the verb always changes. In this case its third person plural form of the verb "to be". That is why, you have to use are instead of is.\n\nIf you have to say the same sentence with singular (Book) then its:-\n\nThere is a book (on cooking here).\n\nConjugation of the verb to be:-\nSingular\nFirst Person:- I am\nSecond Person:- You are\nThird Person:- It is\n------------\nPlural\n1st Person:- We are\n2nd Person:- They are\n3rd Person:- They are\n\nHope this helps!
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a) Changeable\nb) Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
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The first person had the right idea that in grammatical formality it is not preper to end a sentence using is, but they stated "is" is a preposition. That is not correct just for reference. It is a linking verb in that sense. and so 2 and b are the correct (grammatically)answers as people before me have said, but in informal speech, the others would sound more understandable.
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'IPSO FACTO' and not 'ispo facto'\n\nIt is a legal phrase used as an adverb which means 'by reasoning from previously known facts. Example - 'You admit you fired the gun and we know that the shot killed the victim, so you are, ipso facto, responsible for his death'.
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It tell what part of speech it is (noun, adjective, verb)\nIt gives the definition.\nIt gives past and present tense,
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Depends on what your definition of is,  is.
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it is \n\njustify: give reason to your answer
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A noun is a person, place or thing.
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What do you mean 'if'?
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It would be usual to say "equipment is".\n\nTheoretically we could say "equipments are" \nand the plural form is accepted in the Scrabble world.
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In the sentence "what is the verb in this sentence?", the verb is "is".
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Its a noun or a verb, transitive verb or intransitive verb, depending on context.
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Enclosed is, would be correct.
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"In essence,.." = "Basically,"\n\n"The essence of..." = "the main(basic) part of..."\n\n"Time is of the essence...." = "Time is of the utmost importance"
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"If U think it is,then it is and\n if U dont,it isn't.!"\n\n    "It all depends on U"