This flashcard defines function words (form words) as words that primarily express grammatical relationships, such as determiners, pronouns, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, and prepositions.
This flashcard defines function words (form words) as words that primarily express grammatical relationships, such as determiners, pronouns, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, and prepositions.
| term | Function words |
|---|---|
| definition | (form words, grammatical words, synsemantic words): primarily express grammatical relationships e.g. determiners (the, a, this,...), pronouns (she, them,...), conjunctions (and, but,...), auxiliary verbs (can, do,...), prepositions (at, from,...) (-> only fairly few words, but highly frequent) |
| Forward | y |
| Reverse | y |
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