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nominal sentence
noun
, Grammar.
- a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nominal sentence1
First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences
Intimations come out at intervals that the judges will never dare to pass any but a nominal sentence upon him.
From Project Gutenberg
Though, if he can invent for the paramour a German name, he will still receive but a nominal sentence.
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