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verbless

  • a word derived from verb.
    verb
    noun
    any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.

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Often the density of detail is such that the sentences become verbless lists.

From The Guardian Sep. 5, 2019

In his tweets, he is prone to run-on sentences, shouty capitalisations, unpresidented misspellings and malapropisms, quote marks used for emphasis and verbless exclamations.

From The Guardian Jan. 13, 2017

But what endured in public memory far longer than the crime was the headline, with its verbless audacity, arresting parallel adjectives and forceful trochaic slams.

From New York Times Jun. 9, 2015

Stylistically, McCann leans very heavily on one particular syntactical formation, the sentence capped by two or more lilting verbless fragments, which comes to seem like a mechanical affectation.

From The Guardian Jun. 1, 2013

Such a block of Greek would bring even a German sentence down with a crash to a verbless conclusion.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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