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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



... said about the affinity of language among the Eskimo—some asserting that it is such as to allow mutual intercourse everywhere—but instances warrant us in concluding that considerable deviations exist in their vocabularies, if not in the grammatical construction. For instance, take two words that one hears oftener than any others: On the Alaska coast they say "na-koo-ruk," a word meaning "good," "all right," etc.; on the Siberian coast "mah-zink-ah," while a vocabulary collected ...
— The First Landing on Wrangel Island - With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants • Irving C. Rosse



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



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