grammatical construction

Noun
  1. A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit (synset 106324641)
    "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
    is a type of: constituent, grammatical constituent - (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
    subtypes:
    • adjunct - a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
    • clause - (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence
    • complement - a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
    • involution - a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
    • phrase - an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
    • predicator - an expression that predicates
    same as: construction, expression

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