ABSTRACT

Sentence composed solely of nouns. Nominal sentences are a special case of ellipsis, e.g. Life, a dream.

Frequent use of derived nouns instead of verbs, depending on the reforming and reduction of sentences to groups of nouns. Characteristic elements of style are nominalization, e.g. the breakdown of talks instead of talks break down, compounds, relational adjectiv e, e.g. parental agreement instead of the parents agree.