Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grammatical construction

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: gram-mat-i-cal -con-struc-tion
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

7

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

Example Sentences

"I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"

Synonyms

construction expression

Questions

What does grammatical construction mean?: a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

How to pronounce grammatical construction

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