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It might seem that every grammatically complete sentence or clause must contain a finite verb.
However, sentences lacking a finite verb were quite common in the old Indo-European languages.
The most important type of these are nominal sentences.
Another type are sentence fragments described as phrases or minor sentences.
In Latin and some Romance languages, there are a few words that can be used to form sentences without verbs, such as Latin ecce, Portuguese eis, French voici and voilà, and Italian ecco, all of these translatable as here ... is or here ... are.
Some interjections can play the same role.
Even in English, utterances that lack a finite verb are common, e. g. Yes., No., Bill !, Thanks., etc.
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