sentence construction
How clauses combine
Sentence construction is the arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses to form grammatically complete statements.
The term appears in discussions of writing style and language learning, where attention to how sentences are built helps produce clearer prose: Her sentence construction improved after she started reading more.
Awkward sentence construction can obscure meaning even when individual words are correct.
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- clauseProvision in agreement
- subjectMatter under discussion
- nounWord naming something
- subject-verb agreementMatching noun and predicate
modifier · verb · parallelism · run-on · transitions · syntax · dangling modifier · clarity · coherence · subordination · phrase · anaphora · conciseness · grammar · determiner · comma · antithesis · article
sentence constructionvocabulary
One's word collection
word choice · diction · lexicon · morphology · word formation
sentence constructionreading comprehension
Understanding written material
sentence constructionword meaning
A term's significance
semantics · lexicon · pronunciation · phonetics · spelling
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