nominal sentence
noun Grammar.
a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.
RELATED CONTENT
4 Ways To Structure Your SentencesThe four types of sentence structures are simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. The quantity and arrangement of clauses determines the makeup of each type of sentence structure. A clause is a grouping of words with both a subject and a verb that can (but doesn’t always) form a sentence. If the clause can form a complete thought on its own, it’s considered an independent clause. …
Is It OK To Have Sentence Fragments?A sentence fragment is a group of words that doesn’t contain all of the required parts of a sentence. In other words, a sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. It generally lacks a main subject, a verb, or both. A subject is the noun (person, place, or thing) that performs the main action of the sentence. This main action is the verb. Conversely, a complete …
Nearby words
- nominal,
- nominal aphasia,
- nominal damages,
- nominal par,
- nominal scale,
- nominal value,
- nominal wages,
- nominalism,
- nominalize,
- nominally
Origin of nominal sentence
First recorded in 1920–25
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019