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nominal sentence

noun

, Grammar.
  1. 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.

Though, if he can invent for the paramour a German name, he will still receive but a nominal sentence.

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