Immediate Constituent (Noun)
Meaning
A constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The sentence was broken down into its immediate constituents, revealing a complex structure.
- In the phrase "the big red car", "the big red" is an immediate constituent of the noun phrase.
- The subject and predicate are the two main immediate constituents of a sentence.
- At the first step of analysis, the sentence was divided into its immediate constituents, subject and predicate.
- The phrase "in the park" is an immediate constituent of the sentence, functioning as a prepositional phrase.