phrase structure

1. 1.

   the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

   Synonymssyntaxsentence structure

   Broaderstructure

   linguistics

Questions about phrase structure

What does phrase structure mean?

phrase structure means "the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences".

What is another word for phrase structure?

Close synonyms include syntax, sentence structure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phrase structure a common word?

phrase structure 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.