Sentence examples for grammatical unit from inspiring English sources

Nor will the word as a grammatical unit necessarily coincide with the phonological word.

Many of the lines are enjambed rather than end-stopped, and embedded in a larger grammatical unit.

For example, "morpheme" in stratificational grammar corresponds neither to the unit to which Bloomfield applied the term (i.e., to a word segment consisting of phonemes) nor to the more abstract grammatical unit that a Bloomfieldian morpheme might be described as representing (e.g., the past-tense morpheme that might be variously represented by such allomorphs as /id/, /t/, /d/, etc.).

Some other grammatical unit is supplanting them in these functions.

However, a sentence is a grammatical unit, composed of a subject and a predicate.

The INFORMATION system is of a separate grammatical unit, called the information unit (Halliday 1967).

Of these, at least three are minimal grammatical units, in the sense that they cannot be analyzed into yet smaller grammatical units—un-, andl-, and ity.

There are many words in English that are fairly obviously analyzable into smaller grammatical units.

Nontonal grammatical units (i.e., affixes) may be smaller than syllables, but usually the meaningful units consist of one or more syllables.

There is, second, the obvious external form of a single sentence balanced in four grammatical units with and in counterpoint with the metrical form.

Similarly, the units of lexical analysis, sometimes referred to as lexemes (in one sense of this term), are not necessarily identifiable as single grammatical units, whether as morphemes, words, or phrases.