grammatical construction
- noun
- /ˈɡræmətɪkəl kənˈstrʌkʃən/
- Specialized
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construcción gramatical
- There were homely colloquialisms in his command of English, a little out of date, with its careful grammatical construction, in comparison with the spliced improvisations.
Examples
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The title means "the scent," bringing an English noun into an Akan grammatical construction.
Academic text (2009) -
"Even in a grammatical construction like resultative sentences, there are cognitive patterns."
Academic text (2004) -
Do any of my readers have this as a grammatical construction?
Blog text (22) -
The grammatical construction demands an affirmative response.
Academic text (1995) -
The professor explained the rules of a grammatical construction during her lecture.
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In my essay, I used a complex grammatical construction to express my ideas clearly.
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Learning different grammatical constructions can greatly improve your writing skills.
Synonyms
27
5.1
A group of words joined in a particular order to make a phrase or sentence
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3.2
A group of words that work together as one part of a sentence
A group of words that work together as one part of a sentence
How Complex
- Specialized
1
3.5
38
3.0
- Specialized
- Specialized
662
2.6
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'grammatical' (pertaining to language structure) plus 'construction' (a group of words forming a unit); together they denote a unit of words arranged according to grammar. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Grammatical construction comes from the image of a small building of words: grammatical relates to grammar and construction is like a 'building' made from parts. So a grammatical construction is a 'group of words' built together to work as one unit in a sentence.