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Meaning of function word

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

function word

noun

Definitions

  1. A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.

    Synonyms:functorgrammatical word
    Antonyms:content wordlexical word
Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/function%20word

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