grammatical relation

1. 1.

   a linguistic relation established by grammar

   Broaderlinguistic relation

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Questions about grammatical relation

What does grammatical relation mean?

grammatical relation means "a linguistic relation established by grammar".

Is grammatical relation a common word?

grammatical relation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.