GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

Example:

I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner

Synonyms:

construction; expression; grammatical construction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("grammatical construction" is a kind of...):

constituent; grammatical constituent ((grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grammatical construction"):

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)