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FUNCTION WORDS (Pronouns are serve as pointers requiring the listener or…
FUNCTION WORDS
Pronouns are serve as pointers requiring the listener or reader to find the exact meaning in the surrounding text or in the speech situation
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Auxiliaries
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The modal auxiliaries are largely concerned with expressing 'modality', i.e. such concepts as ability, permission.
Conjunction is a function word which joins syntactic units: words, parts of clauses, clauses, sentences
Coordinators are usually classified into additive (and), adversative (but), and disjunctive (or).
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Numerals
Cardinal numerals are related to quantifiers, but differ from them in providing a numerical rather than a more general specification
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Possessive determiners specify a noun phrase by relating it to the speaker/writer (my. our), the addressee (your) or other entities mentioned in the text or given in the speech situation (his, her, its, their).
The demonstrative determiners this/these and that/those are similar to the definite article inconveying definite meaning.
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