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_______ construction refers to a group of syntactically related words where none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as a whole,that is,there is no definable “c entre ”o r “h ead ”i nside the group. Exocentric construction usually includes basic sentence, prepositional phrase, predicate (verb + object) construction, and connective (be + c omplement) construction.