Major Categories of Function Words – 1
1.
Determiners: Function words which signal nouns.
They never appear except when followed by a
noun and invariably signal its coming: a, the,
an, possessive pr-ns
2.
Auxiliary
verbs:
have and be. Modals are subcategories.
3.
Qualifiers:
work with both adj. and adv.: more and most,
very, quite, rather, less (intensifiers)
Function Words – 2
4.
Prepositions
5.
Conjunctions:
work as coordination of linguistic forms of
syntactic units having equal value
6.
Subordinators: Connect dependent clauses and include words
like: because, after, as well as relative
pronouns
7.
Interrogatives: Operate in the formation of questions and
include words like when, where, why, how
and so on: as well as – the interrogative
pronouns which, what, who
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