Function Word
Of word. May also be referred to as closed-class word.
A word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning.
This concept's ID is @1~33718
Contains
- pronoun
A function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase.
- connective
An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or s...
- determiner
One of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrase...
- grammatical meaning
The meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional...
- preposition
A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional...
- particle
A function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs.