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GRAMMATICAL CONSTITUENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
Synonyms:
constituent; grammatical constituent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("grammatical constituent" is a kind of...):
syntagm; syntagma (a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit)
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grammatical constituent"):
subject ((grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated)
object ((grammar) a constituent that is acted upon)
ablative absolute (a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier)
immediate constituent (a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate)
construction; expression; grammatical construction (a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit)
misconstruction (an ungrammatical constituent)
term (one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition)
Holonyms ("grammatical constituent" is a part of...):
sentence (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language)
