Word or phrase

Word or phrase is a phrase used to refer alternatively to either a word or a phrase, there lacking a single word hypernym that covers both words and phrases which are clearly conceptually related grammatically.

These cover different types of phrases, specifically:

• noun or noun phrase
• adjective or adjective phrase / adjective or adjectival phrase
• adverb or adverb phrase / adverb or adverbial phrase
• preposition or preposition phrase/ preposition or prepositional phrase