LIN204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Auxiliary Verb, Closed Set, Determiner
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Function words are very di erent from content words. Recall: content words are words such that t into the category of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Function words are called small and closed set because they cannot be invented or formed as content words. Their are 8 di erent categories for function words determiners auxiliaries quali es prepositions conjunctions pronouns relatives interrogatives. For instance in content words such as cat, we can picture an image of a cat, which is a thing that can be said in isolation. However function words such the has no independent meaning. Function words are meant to provide infrastructure into which content words can be placed. Provide information on how to interpret content words and phrases. Possessive: my, our, your, his, her, its, their. Inde nites: some, any, no, every, other, many, much, all, both, each. Ordinal numbers: rst, second, third, fourth, . last. They do not pass the formal or functional test - x.
