phrase vs grammatical construction

grammatical construction vs phrase

phrase and grammatical construction both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, grammatical construction is a hypernym of phrase; that is, grammatical construction is a word with a broader meaning than phrase:

phrase: an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent 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 phrase include construction, expression.

phrase (noun)	grammatical construction (noun)
dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence	a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
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

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

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