adjunct vs grammatical construction
grammatical construction vs adjunctadjunct and grammatical construction both are nouns.
adjunct is an adjective but grammatical construction is not an adjective.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adjunct | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| grammatical construction | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
grammatical construction is a hypernym of
adjunct; that is, grammatical construction is a
word with a broader meaning than adjunct:
- 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
- grammatical construction: a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
Other hypernyms of adjunct include
construction, expression.
| adjunct (noun) | grammatical construction (noun) |
|---|---|
| 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 | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit |
| something added to another thing but not an essential part of it | |
| a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another |
| adjunct (adjective) | grammatical construction (adjective) |
|---|---|
| of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | |
| furnishing added support |
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