grammatical constituent

Noun
  1. (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction (synset 106323956)
    referred to in: grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
    is a type of: syntagm, syntagma - a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit
    subtypes:
    • subject - (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
    • object - (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon
    • ablative absolute - a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier
    • immediate constituent - a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate
    • construction, expression, grammatical construction - a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
    • misconstruction - an ungrammatical constituent
    • term - one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
    is a part of: sentence - a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
    same as: constituent

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