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    - Functional words are words that express grammatical relationships rather than having semantic content themselves. They include articles, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs. - Content words are words that have inherent meaning, like nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, question words, and negatives. They can be added to over time. - Examples are given of sentences containing both functional and content words to demonstrate the difference between the two word types.

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    Function and Content Words

    French Group :
    -Nazira
    -Annisa Akbar
    -Nadya
    -Desiyana Putri
    -Ernika
    -Cindy
    -Ririn

    FUNCTIONAL WORD

    Functional word is a word that expresses a


    grammatical or structural relationship with
    other word in a sentence.
    These kinds of words are called function words
    because they specify grammatical relations
    and have little or not semantic content.

    The following is a list of the kind of words


    considered to be function words

    Articles/determiners: Words that give detail to nouns (The, a an, some, any)
    Pronouns: Words that replace noun ( I, me, mine, he, she, and so on are part
    of this class).
    Conjunctions: Words that tie clauses together.
    Subordinating Conjuction: Which, that, while, whether, before,
    although/though, since, so that, as, if, than, etc.
    Coordinating Conjuction: Or, but, for, so, yet, therefore, both, etc.
    Forms indicating number: One, two, three, four, five, etc.
    Gender/tenses
    Auxiliary verb: Verbs that support the main verbs (Am, are, has, could,
    should)
    Prepositions: Words that tell relation to other words (aboard, About,
    above/over, after, against, along, alongside, among, about, at,on, to, etc).

    Example of Functions
    Human is the grows from time to time Come from
    the kingdom Animalia, In class Mammalia, and
    Family Hominidia. Included in the order in Primates
    in Genus Homo sapens Species. This is the
    scientific classification of human. Homo speens is
    found in years before now, exactly in 1758.
    Modern human has a unique and greater part of
    body than primates or any human before recent
    years. We are the only extant members of the
    homonym clade. The only things that make human
    different from animals brain and feeling.

    CONTENT WORDS
    Content words are words that have meaning.
    They can be comparedto grammatical
    words, which are structural.
    Content words are sometimes called the open
    class words because we can and regularly to
    add new words to these classes.

    The following is a list of the kind of


    words considered to be content words
    Nouns: People, places, things, and ideas (Patty,
    seattle, cars, happiness)
    Main verbs: Verbs without auxilliaries (Ran,
    swim, thinks, etc)
    Adjectives: Word that describe nouns (Red, soft
    careful, etc)
    Adverbs (except adverbs of frequency: Word that
    describe verbs (Calmly, quickly, careful)
    Question words: Words that denote a question
    (Who, what, where, when, why)
    Negative: Words that negate (Not, never)

    Example of Contents

    Human can also create a complex structure of sociality like


    groups such as faily and also kinship network. The
    interaction between human to human will from a values like
    social rituals, and any activity they made. The phonemena
    has been running since the thousand or million years ago.

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