grammar - studies of the formation of basic linguistic units

sentence - a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"

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; "the object of the verb"

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

syntagm, syntagma - a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit

grammatical construction, construction, expression - a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"

misconstruction - an ungrammatical constituent

term - one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"