Does the embedding of the Grassmannian in the projectivization of the exterior algebra require the axiom of choice?

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According to the wikipedia page for the Grassmannian, the embedding in the projectivization of the exterior algebra of $V$ requires the choice of, for every r-dimensional subspace, a basis for that space. The point in $P(\Lambda (V))$ is associated with the equivalence class of the wedge product of the basis vectors (or at least that's how I've been thinking about it). The choice of basis vectors requires a function from each subspace to a set of basis vectors, right? And the existence of such a function is only permitted by the axiom of choice, right? Or is there an alternate construction where this choice is unnecessary?