| NOUN | communication | closed-class word, function word | a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning / meaning |
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| Meaning | A word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning / meaning. | |
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| Synonym | function word | |
| Parts | grammatical meaning | The meaning / meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence |
| Narrower | conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative | An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences |
| determiner, determinative | One of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | |
| particle | A function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs | |
| preposition | A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | |
| pronoun | A function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase | |
| Broader | word | A unit of language that native speakers can identify |
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