Function word
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function-word-177-2153562
title:
Function word
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In linguistics, function words are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. They signal the structural relationships that words have to one another and are the glue that holds sentences together. Thus they form important elements in the structures of sentences. Words that are not function words are called content words and include nouns, most verbs, a
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Words supplying mainly grammatical information, rather than content information
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_word
date created:
2003-02-05T23:15:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T23:04:02Z
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