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GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
