grammatical construction

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

construction expression phrasal

Hypernyms

constituent grammatical constituent

Hyponyms

phrase clause complement adjunct involution predicator

Examples

I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

grammatical class grammatical concept grammatical constituent grammatical correctness grammatical element grammatical endings