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True or false a sentence composed of nonsense words can have grammatical meaning?

This is a tricky one! Here's the breakdown:

* Technically: A sentence made of nonsense words will follow the grammatical rules of the language it's in. It might have a subject, verb, object, etc.

* Meaningfully: The meaning will be nonsensical because the words themselves have no established definitions.

Therefore, the answer is:

* True (grammatically), False (meaningfully)

Example:

"The blimpish flibbertigibbet quizzled the blargle with a snozzcumber."

This sentence has a subject (flibbertigibbet), verb (quizzled), object (blargle), and prepositional phrase (with a snozzcumber). It's grammatically correct, but it has no real meaning.

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