IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("immediate constituent" is a kind of...):

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

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