construction
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5.1
- noun
- /kənˈstrʌkʃən/
- Specialized
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construcción
- Each group presented their construction of a new project during the class discussion.
- sentence construction
- grammatical construction
- passive construction
Like, there's some black writers you read and you just feel special that you're centered in these, like, beautiful constructions of language.
- Like, there's some black writers you read and you just feel special that you're centered in these, like, beautiful constructions of language.
- You just, you just the phrase which really got it for me there is when you see that it is a construction, then you can start to unconstruct it, right?
- So we can go and look at some other instances when he uses that construction.
- Let's start with the construction for and then replace.
Examples
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The teacher explained the construction of complex sentences to help us improve our writing.
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The construction is almost exactly the same.
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Now let's look at the construction of these three coats in details.
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As a whole class, students might orally practice the construction of an argument.
Academic text (2015) -
The last number on our Fantasia programme is a combination of two pieces of music so utterly different in construction and mood that they set each other off perfectly.
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All these studies suggest a specific association between given grammatical constructions and the relevant associated lexicon.
Academic text (2012) -
In her essay, she analyzed the construction of the argument presented in the book.
Synonyms
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3.2
A group of words that work together as one part of a sentence
A group of words in a sentence that work together to show one idea
The order and grouping of words in a sentence that make parts like the subject and verb
Compounds
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1.7
A person who builds and fixes buildings, roads and other large structures at work sites
- Specialized
A group of words in a sentence that work together to show one idea
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Construction comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and struere 'to pile up or build'. A grammatical construction is simply words 'built' together in a pattern, like the structure of a sentence.