Teknika3_10_Content and Function Words.ppt
- 1. Content and Function Words IRMA SHINTA DEWI
- 2. Content Words Give you information :Noun: You,Table, Ship Verb: Sink, Put, Adjective: Soft, Clear Adverb: Softly, Clearly
- 3. Content Words While nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are the most important content words, there are a few other words that are also key to understanding. These include negatives like no, not and never; demonstrative pronouns including this, that, these and those; and question words like what, where, when, how and why.
- 4. Examples: Nouns Verbs house enjoy computer purchase student visit lake understand Peter believe science look forward to
- 5. Examples Adjectives Adverbs heavy slowly difficult carefully careful sometimes expensive thoughtfully soft often fast suddenly
- 6. Funtion words unify between content words in a sentence. Function words help us connect important information. Function words are important for understanding, but they add little meaning beyond defining the relationship between two words.
- 7. Function words Function words include: Auxiliary verbs = do, be, have (help with Prepositions = show relationships in time and space Articles = used to indicate specific or non- specific nouns Conjunctions = words that connect Pronouns = refer to other nouns
- 8. Function words • include auxiliary verbs, prepositions, articles, conjunctions, and pronouns. Auxiliary verbs are used to establish the tense, prepositions show relationships in time and space, articles show us something that is specific or one of many, and pronouns refer to other nouns.
- 9. • Auxiliary verbs = do, be, have (help with conjugation of tense) • Prepositions = show relationships in time and space • Articles = used to indicate specific or non- specific nouns • Conjunctions = words that connect • Pronouns = refer to other nouns
- 10. Example uxiliary Verbs Prepositions do in has at will though is over has been between did under
- 11. Why study this? • Knowing the difference between content and functions words is important because content words are stressed in conversation in English. Function words are non-stressed. In other words, function words are not emphasized in speech, while content words are highlighted. Knowing the difference between content and function words can help you in understanding, and, most importantly, in pronunciation skills.
- 12. Exercises 1 • Decide which words are function and content words in the following sentences. • Mary has lived in England for ten years. • He's going to fly to Chicago next week. • I don't understand this chapter of the book. • The children will be swimming in the ocean this time next week. • John had eaten lunch before his colleague arrived. • The best time to study is early in the morning or late in the evening. • The trees along the river are beginning to blossom. • Our friends called us yesterday and asked if we'd like to visit them next month. • You'll be happy to know that she's decided to take the position.
- 13. How do it? Please 1. Make it bold or italic for Content words 2. put the answer in wa group
- 14. QUESTIONS?? • IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE POST IT TO WA GROUP
- 15. Thank you