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Grammatical construction   /grəmˈætəkəl kənstrˈəkʃən/   Listen
Grammatical construction

noun
1.
A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.  Synonyms: construction, expression.






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"Grammatical construction" Quotes from Famous Books



... question. This is the method of Russell's Gram., p. 99; of Merchants, p. 110; of Kirkham's, p. 111; of Gilbert's, p. 92. But it should be remembered that equivalence of meaning is not sameness of grammatical construction; and, even if the construction be the same, to parse other equivalent words, is not really to parse the text that is given. A good parser, with the liberty to supply obvious ellipses, should know how to explain all good English as it stands; and for ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... to render the meaning of this sentence with strict accuracy; mainly because the grammatical construction is defective in the most important part—line 4. In the very slight original sketch the shadow touches the upper arch of the window and the correction, here given is perhaps ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci



Words linked to "Grammatical construction" :   involution, expression, grammatical constituent, constituent, misconstruction, adjunct, predicator, phrase, complement, clause



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