The phrase "a groundwork of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a foundational basis or underlying structure for something, such as a concept, project, or argument.
Example: "The research provided a groundwork of evidence that supported the new theory."
Alternatives: "a foundation of" or "a basis of".
What I principally wanted to do was to depict human beings, human emotions, and human destinies, upon a groundwork of certain of the social conditions and principles of the present day".
Gleevec rests on a groundwork of basic cancer research, conducted mostly by American researchers, and on a farsighted drug development program started in 1985 at Ciba-Geigy, a predecessor of Novartis.
In order to secure this money, you've laid a groundwork of assumptions about the business and now need to deliver on those for your new investors.
She said they appreciate "those kind of effects in older movies and [questions] sometimes how much more effective it is to use a ton of CG" and that they "always started with a practical effect and then moved forward from there to lay a groundwork of something that's actually physically, materially there".
"Once you set kind of a groundwork for your skills and the technique and everything, doubles is a lot more than that.
So I was laying something of a groundwork in the piscatorial direction, through innuendo and cunning.
Just today, the three companies came together to form a partnership around containers, but the groundwork of a partnership had its genesis in the web of relationships that formed long before that.
The eighteen years after 1982 made the long 1970s not the groundwork of a trend, but an anomaly.
Peter stressed the function of his office rather than that of his person and laid the groundwork of a modern system of administration.
But the Galaxy Tab's groundwork of a richly featured if somewhat complex OS has been laid, and it just needs more app developers to come and build.
Given the groundwork of a comprehensive systematic literature review, these recommendations reflect the current state of knowledge and its interpretation by a group of experts at the time of publication.
