The phrase "give a token" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to mean giving a small or symbolic amount of something. For example: - As a gesture of appreciation, the company decided to give a token of gratitude to each of their employees. - The landlord asked for a token of $100 to secure the apartment rental. - The winner of the game was awarded a trophy as a token of their victory.
But Kuznetsov was not content just to give a token effort against the 10-time Grand Slam champion.
I should probably give a token nod to the stunning scenery in the Pyrenees, by the way, which looks great from where I'm sitting in London EC1.
But Hung said Beijing could give a token concession – for example, by tweaking the make-up of the nominating committee – giving cover to a handful of democratic legislators to vote for the bill.
[C2.] Major Powers to Forgive Debt The United States, Japan, Europe and other industrial powers have agreed to forgive loans to 22 of the world's poorest countries this year, fulfilling a promise to accelerate debt relief and to give a token of the West's unprecedented prosperity to the poor.
The United States, Japan and European and other industrial powers have agreed to forgive loans to 22 of the world's poorest countries this year, fulfilling a promise to accelerate debt relief and to give a token of the West's unprecedented prosperity to the poor.
Instead, by carefully omitting this crucial contextual passage, Obama allowed himself to give a token nod to Eisenhower's thinking without applying it sincerely to his decision to spend a minimum entry fee of $30 billion on a campaign of blurrily preemptive goals and a hazy timeline.
Ironically, two days before Djohar's death, Denard was finally brought to trial, eventually being found guilty and given a token suspended five-year sentence.
Visitors are given a token and allowed to drop it into the slot of one of three conservation projects that the zoo chooses each year.
But his government has become increasingly unpopular, with Gilani given a token jail sentence last month by the country's supreme court.
Given a token, the server can retrieve nothing other than pointers to the encrypted content that contains the keyword.
Although Kymlicka gives a token bow to the "sin of methodological nationalism", he does not adequately address the theoretical underpinnings of the critique (Beck, 2002; Wimmer & Glick Schiller, 2002).
