grammatical construction - 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"adjunct - a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical 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 and intricate and complicated grammatical construction phrase - an expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb |