| 单词 | grammatical construction |
| 释义 | grammatical construction (once / 58224 pages) n WORD FAMILY grammatical construction: grammatical constructions USAGE EXAMPLESThus, young children initially speak with only concrete and simple grammatical constructions based on specific patterns of words: “Where’s the X?” Salon(Sep 10, 2016) It extended even to matters of language: Although his English was fluent, he peppered it with French circumlocutions and grammatical constructions. Washington Post(Feb 16, 2016) On one level the frivolity of “Birthday Offering” is absurd; on another, the dazzling grammatical construction of its every dance is compelling. New York Times(Jul 08, 2012) n a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper construction, expression misconstruction an ungrammatical constituent adjunct a construction that can be used to extend the 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 complementa word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction involutiona long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction phrasean expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence predicatoran expression that predicates independent clause, main clausea clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence coordinate clausea clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function dependent clause, subordinate clausea clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb relative clausea clause introduced by a relative pronoun parenthetical, parenthetical expressionan expression in parentheses nominal, nominal phrase, noun phrasea phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb predicate, verb phraseone of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements prepositional phrasea phrase beginning with a preposition pronominal, pronominal phrasea phrase that functions as a pronoun responsea phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister catch phrase, catchphrasea phrase that has become a catchword constituent, grammatical constituent (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction |
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