Pass judgement on several words, appropriately structured (8)
I believe the answer is:
sentence
'pass judgement on' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'several words appropriately structured' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'several' could be 'ten' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ten' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sentence that I've seen before include "Court judgement" , "Term of imprisonment" , "Judge's punishment" , "unit booked?" , "in so many words" .)