Contrastivists have frequently stressed the fact that verbless structures or clause were a characteristic feature of French compared with English. The aim of this paper is first of all to qualify this perception of the two languages. An examination of a corpus of various English texts leads to noting that verbless sentences appear with a certain frequency in connection with certain registers; strangely enough, although a number of patterns are translatable literally, it is to be noted that a portion of them require the introduction of verbs in French. Reversely, the examination of a corpus of texts containing sentences with verbs leads to a double observation: translators do not always use the possibility of constructing a verbless sentence; when they do, it is again in connection with a certain register, or the creation of a certain register. Although verbless sentences may appear as a linguistic characteristic, this opinion should be cautiously qualified through the notion of register.