grammatical construction vs phrase

grammatical construction and phrase both are nouns.

grammatical construction is not a verb while phrase is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grammatical construction	Yes	No	No	No
phrase	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, phrase is a hyponym of grammatical construction; that is, phrase is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than grammatical construction:

grammatical construction: a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
phrase: an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence

Other hyponyms of grammatical construction include adjunct, clause, complement, involution, predicator.

grammatical construction (noun)	phrase (noun)
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit	dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
	an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
	a short musical passage
	an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

grammatical construction (verb)	phrase (verb)
	put into words or an expression
	divide, combine, or mark into phrases

grammatical construction vs phrase

grammatical construction and phrase both are nouns.

grammatical construction is not a verb while phrase is a verb.

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