Final answer:
The sentence 'That your car' does not contain an obligatory context for the uncontractible copula BE, because the sentence is incomplete and lacks necessary context to determine such a requirement.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question 'The following sentence contains an obligatory context for the uncontractible copula BE (am, are, is, was, were): "That your car"' asks if this incomplete sentence necessarily requires the use of a form of the verb to be which cannot be contracted. The answer to this question is False.
The sentence provided, "That your car," is not only missing the verb but also does not provide enough context to determine whether the sentence might contain an obligatory context for the uncontractible copula BE. For a sentence to contain an obligatory context for the uncontractible copula, it would need to follow particular sentence patterns such as those discussed in the reference material:
- (subject) + (be verb) + (adverbial of time or place)
- (subject) + (be verb) + (adjectival)
- (subject) + (be verb) + (noun phrase)
In the given sentence fragment, there is no clear indication of such a pattern, particularly because the sentence is incomplete and lacks a predicate. In English grammar, the copula 'be' is used to link the subject of a sentence with its complement which may be an adverbial of time or place, an adjectival, or a noun phrase.
Hence, without further context, asserting that this fragment has an obligatory context for the copula BE is incorrect.