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Words Grammatical Y Function Form Synsemantic Primarily Express

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)
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