Grammatical Construction
In linguistics, a grammatical construction is any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes, such as phrasal verbs.
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“Evil is simply
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between “he”
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