NOUN
- a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
How To Use function word In A Sentence
- The fundamental principle of stylometric analysis is that the frequency of occurrence of function words in a written document is an identifying characteristic of the author. Deconstructing Obama
- The selection of a particular planning frame commits the speaker to using certain function words and affixes and not others.
- However, as already pointed out, function words (but not nouns) in German have a different capitalization depending on their position within the sentence.
- There's no rule for how to pronounce/write one of the function words when it appears phrase-finally - but all signs point to the prevocalic form being the special case and the preconsonantal form being the default case.
- Biassou et al. found support for the notion that patients with agrammatism have particular problems in processing function words.
- The selection of a particular planning frame commits the speaker to using certain function words and affixes and not others.
- This patient's verbal output consisted almost entirely of content words there were almost no function words and no grammatical structure.
- The selection of a particular planning frame commits the speaker to using certain function words and affixes and not others.
- He habitually says the function word & quot ; ah & quot ; whenever he is about to speak.
- There is indeed a surplus of plussage in all those other terms, but plus is one of those rare increases among function words -- a new relative. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1
