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 really see how this works, but
'several' could be 'ten' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ten' is found 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" .)