Meaning | A word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning / meaning. |
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Synonym | function word |
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Parts | grammatical meaning | The meaning / meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence |
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Narrower | conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative | An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences |
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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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