nominal sentence

noun Grammar.

a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.

Nearby words

nominal, nominal aphasia, nominal damages, nominal par, nominal scale, nominal sentence, nominal value, nominal wages, nominalism, nominalize, nominally

Origin of nominal sentence

First recorded in 1920–25

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