English noun: grammatical construction | |||
1. | grammatical construction (communication) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | ||
Samples | I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner. | ||
Synonyms | construction, expression | ||
Broader (hypernym) | constituent, grammatical constituent | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | adjunct, clause, complement, involution, phrase, predicator | ||
Antonyms | misconstruction | ||