What is word?
Word is a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.
It means that word is the smallest unit of a language that build meaning. When we combine two or more words, it can be phrase or sentence.
Word divided into 2 parts, they are:
1. Content word
2. Function word
What is Content word?
A word that conveys information in a text or speech act. Also known as a lexical word.
Content include noun, verb, adjective, and adverb.
the e.g. of content words
a. noun : Maria, book, house, lion, stone, air, etc.
b. verb : eat, meet, walk, see, hear, read, write, etc.
c. adjective : beautiful, lazy, angry, humble, clever, etc.
d. adverb : in my house, above, near, upper, etc.
What is Function word?
Function word is glue pieces of sentence into longer syntactic patterns that expresses a grammatical or structural relationship with other words in a sentence. A function word has little or no meaningful content. Function words are also known asgrammatical words.
Function words include determiner (for example, the, that), conjunction (and, but), preposition (in, of),pronoun (she, they), auxiliary verb (be, have), modal (may, could), and quantifier (some, both).
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