GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grammatical construction mean? 

• GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION (noun)
  The noun GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

construction; expression; grammatical construction

Context example:

I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner

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)