| NOUN | communication | grammatical construction, construction, expression | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit |
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| Meaning | A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit. | |
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| Synonyms | construction, expression | |
| Narrower | adjunct | A construction that can be used to extend the meaning / meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence |
| clause | (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence | |
| complement | A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction | |
| involution | A long / long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction | |
| phrase | An expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence | |
| predicator | An expression that predicates | |
| Broader | constituent, grammatical constituent | (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger / larger grammatical construction |
| Opposite | misconstruction | An ungrammatical constituent |
| Spanish | construcción | |
| Catalan | construcció | |
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