Function Words and Content Words Flashcards
(closed class words/grammatical words) are words that have little meaning in the dictionary sense but which serve important functions to express grammatical relationship with other words within a sentence.
Function
KINDS OF FUNCTION
WORD
Articles Auxiliary verbs Conjunctions Determiners Intensifiers Prepositions Pronouns Intensifiers
is a type of determiner that precedes a noun.
Articles
are “helping” verbs that
combine with various parts of other
verbs to make verb phrases.
Auxiliary Verbs
that joins two similarly constructed and/or syntactically equal words or phrases or clauses within a sentence.
Coordinating Conjunction
that introduces a
dependent clause.
Subordinating Conjunction
that links balanced words, phrases, and clauses.
Correlative Conjunction
A word or a group of words that introduces
a noun.
Determiners
that points to a particular
noun or to the noun it replaces.
Demonstratives
a type of determiner (such as all,
some, or much) that expresses a contrast in
quantity.
Quantifiers
A determiner used in front of a noun to
express possession or belonging
Possessive determiner
A word that emphasizes another word or
phrase.
Intensifier
are the words that indicate
location.
Prepositions
A word that takes the place of a noun,
noun phrase, or noun clause.
Pronoun
refers to a specific person or thing and changes its form to indicate person, number, gender, and case.
Personal Pronouns
