the structure that a sentence has when you consider only the classes of its words, which may be different when you also consider the meaning of the sentence, as opposed to the logical relationships on which this structure is based
Synonyms and related words
The grammatical behaviour of words
agreement
agree with
backshift
See alsodeep structure
surface structure
noun uncountable linguistics
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the structure that a sentence has when you consider only the classes of its words, which may be different when you also consider the meaning of the sentence, as opposed to the logical relationships on which this structure is based