immediate constituent

1. 1.

   a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate

   Broaderconstituent

Questions about immediate constituent

What does immediate constituent mean?

immediate constituent means "a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate".

Is immediate constituent a common word?

immediate constituent 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.