nominal sentence
nounGrammar.
a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
Origin of nominal sentence
1First recorded in 1920–25
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How to use nominal sentence in a sentence
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.
Another Sheaf | John Galsworthy
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