Function and content words
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This document discusses function words and their roles in language. It defines function words as words that connect important information but add little meaning on their own. The document outlines the main categories of function words, including auxiliary verbs like do and be that help establish tense, prepositions like in and at that show spatial and temporal relationships, articles like a and the that indicate specificity of nouns, conjunctions like and and but that connect parts of sentences, and pronouns like I, you, and it that substitute or refer to other nouns.
Function and content words
- 2. Function words Words that connect important information Add little meaning beyond defining the relationship between two words. It includes auxiliary verbs, prepositions, articles, conjunctions, and pronouns.
- 3. Auxiliary Verbs Used to establish the tense: Examples: Do, be have (help with conjugation of tense) Do, has, will, is, has been, did
- 4. Preposition shows relationship in time and space Example: In, at, through over, between under
- 5. Articles shows us something that is specific or one of many. Indicate specific or non-specific nouns Example: a, an, the
- 6. Conjunctions These are the words that connect Example: F,A,N,B,O,Y,S
- 7. Pronouns Refer to the other noun, it is also the substitute of nouns Example: I, you, him, she, us, ours, she