The phrase "awkward structure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sentence or phrase that is clumsy or not well-formed, making it difficult to read or understand.
Example: "The author's use of long, convoluted sentences resulted in an awkward structure that detracted from the overall clarity of the text."
Alternatives: "clumsy construction" or "ungraceful phrasing".
This awkward structure weakens the chief executive, argues Mr Knight, and "fosters a lack of accountability".
The amiable Longley didn't gripe about his uncertain role in the team's awkward structure, even when grumbling became fashionable for Glen Rice, Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston late last month.
Unfortunately, the awkward structure ensures that the show never gets out of first gear, and, while the two older actors cruise through the script, Byrne gets by on sheer charm alone.
According to our analysis, we think that the wrong perception of structures can be explained by the following two reasons: awkward structures and imperfect algorithm.
("He heard himself utter three words that in all his adult life had never, in such a situation, left his mouth before. 'No, thank you.'") Awkward sentence structure aside, Bond's response is a travesty.
That, crucially, opened the way for foreign aid to come back in.His second and more recent big feat was to cut a constitutional deal to end the awkward dual structure of what was left of federal Yugoslavia: last month its two remaining parts became almost independent, to be only loosely linked under the cumbersome name of "Serbia and Montenegro".
The forward aliasing cancelation algorithm is proposed to solve the awkward frame structure mentioned above.
The language errors under study are two rule-based errors (subject/verb agreement, pronoun agreement) and two non rule-based errors (wrong word choice, awkward sentence structure).
But it is a laggard, partly because the employee trust can be an awkward management structure in a fast-changing world.
Third, the performance of one item of the sentence repetition task (i.e. "I only know that Liang Zhang is the one to help today") was so poor that only twenty percent of the population could successfully repeat it, because the literal translation of this sentence from English to Chinese has resulted in an awkward sentence structure in Chinese.
Though sometimes perceived as awkward, these structures were acclaimed for their powerful and energetic presence.
