Grammatical Construction (Noun)
Meaning
A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The grammatical construction of the sentence was awkward and difficult to understand.
- The teacher explained the grammatical construction of the sentence to the students.
- The poet's use of unusual grammatical constructions added to the complexity of the poem.
- The linguist studied the grammatical construction of the sentence to understand its meaning.
- The grammatical construction of the sentence was so convoluted that it was hard to decipher its intended meaning.