---
pattern: 8
type: success
name: Copula Avoidance
pack: en-language
language: en
---

# Pattern 8: Copula Avoidance — Success

## Input Text

> The old warehouse serves as a popular weekend market venue. The rooftop garden functions as a quiet retreat for office workers during lunch hours. The adjacent parking lot also acts as an overflow space for the annual street festival.

## Expected Output

> The old warehouse is a weekend market. On Saturdays it draws about 2,000 visitors. The rooftop garden is a lunch spot for office workers from the buildings next door, and the parking lot handles overflow during the annual street festival in September.

## Applied Pattern

- Pattern 8 (Copula Avoidance): Three copula-avoidance constructions in one paragraph — "serves as," "functions as," and "acts as" — each replacing a simple "is." None of the subjects have a formally designated role function; they are just descriptions of what each place is used for.

## Judgment

**Success** — The fire condition is met: 3 copula-avoidance constructions appear in the same paragraph, and in every case "is" would be shorter and clearer. The warehouse does not hold a formal institutional role — it is simply used as a market. The corrected version uses plain "is" and adds concrete details: visitor count, timing, and the specific festival.
