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    Structural words, also known as function words, signal how content words relate to each other in a sentence. There are six main types of determiners that precede and modify nouns, including articles, demonstratives, possessives, indefinites, cardinal numbers, and ordinal numbers. Auxiliaries were originally verbs that have come to function as structure words, and are used to signal verb phrases. Qualifiers and intensifiers usually precede adjectives or adverbs to increase or decrease their meaning. Prepositions convey relationships of time, place, and manner and signal that a prepositional phrase follows. Conjunctions join together grammatical structures of similar form, with coordinating conjunctions joining sentences.

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    Structural words, also known as function words, signal how content words relate to each other in a sentence. There are six main types of determiners that precede and modify nouns, including articles, demonstratives, possessives, indefinites, cardinal numbers, and ordinal numbers. Auxiliaries were originally verbs that have come to function as structure words, and are used to signal verb phrases. Qualifiers and intensifiers usually precede adjectives or adverbs to increase or decrease their meaning. Prepositions convey relationships of time, place, and manner and signal that a prepositional phrase follows. Conjunctions join together grammatical structures of similar form, with coordinating conjunctions joining sentences.

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    Structural words, also known as function words, signal how content words relate to each other in a sentence. There are six main types of determiners that precede and modify nouns, including articles, demonstratives, possessives, indefinites, cardinal numbers, and ordinal numbers. Auxiliaries were originally verbs that have come to function as structure words, and are used to signal verb phrases. Qualifiers and intensifiers usually precede adjectives or adverbs to increase or decrease their meaning. Prepositions convey relationships of time, place, and manner and signal that a prepositional phrase follows. Conjunctions join together grammatical structures of similar form, with coordinating conjunctions joining sentences.

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    Structural words, also known as function words, signal how content words relate to each other in a sentence. There are six main types of determiners that precede and modify nouns, including articles, demonstratives, possessives, indefinites, cardinal numbers, and ordinal numbers. Auxiliaries were originally verbs that have come to function as structure words, and are used to signal verb phrases. Qualifiers and intensifiers usually precede adjectives or adverbs to increase or decrease their meaning. Prepositions convey relationships of time, place, and manner and signal that a prepositional phrase follows. Conjunctions join together grammatical structures of similar form, with coordinating conjunctions joining sentences.

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    STRUCTURAL WORDS

    STRUCTURAL WORDS

    Structure Class Words or function words, are words that


    signal how the form class words or content words relate to
    each other in a sentence. In some cases, structure-class
    words function in more than one capacity, and, in these
    cases functional tests can help determine which part of
    speech the word is functioning as in the sentence. A
    determiner is a structure-class word that precedes and
    modifies a noun.
    There are six main groups of determiners

    1. Articles a/an, the

    2. Demonstratives this, these, that, those

    3. Possessives my, our, your, his, her, its, their

    4. Indefinites some, any no, every, other, another, many, more, most, enough, few,
    less, much, either, neither, several, all, both, each

    5. Cardinal numbers one, two, three, four,...

    6. Ordinal numbers first, second, third,....last


    Auxiliaries were originally prototypical verbs which
    over the course of time have come to function like
    structure-class words. They are used to signal that
    the main verb is coming in a verb phrase (a group of
    words that function like a verb), or VP for short.
    There are several types of auxiliaries. The modal
    auxiliaries can, could, will, would, shall, should,
    may, might, and must. The verbs have, be, and do can
    be used both as normal verbs and as auxiliary verbs.
    Qualifiers and Intensifiers usually precede
    adjectives or adverbs, increasing or
    decreasing the quality signified by they words
    they modify (more colourful, less frequently).
    Prepositions signal that a noun phrase called the object of the
    preposition follows. A preposition and its object are together
    called a prepositional phrase (PP). Prepositional phrases
    themselves function as modifiers of noun phrases or verb
    phrases in a sentence:
    • Adjectival function: The voice of the people (modifies the voice)
    • Adverbial function: hurried to the store (modifies hurried)
    • Adverbial function: sorry for the interruption (modifies sorry)
    • Prepositions convey relationships of time, place, and manner.
    • Certain prepositions are phrasal: that is, two or more words that stand in
    for one (e.g. according to).
    Conjunctions are • I drive a Toyota and a Ford.
    structure-class words
    that join together • *I drive a Toyota and to school.
    grammatical structures. • I drive to work and to school. I drive
    The most common are
    the coordinating (or carefully and slowly.
    coordinate) conjunctions • *I drive carefully and to school.
    and, but, or, yet, nor, for, • When two sentences are joined by
    and so. It is important to
    realise that coordinating coordinating conjunctions, the result is
    conjunctions join a compound sentence.
    grammatical structures • Pedro threw a temper tantrum, but his
    of similar form. Consider
    these examples. sister ignored him.
    EXERCISE

    Now that you have learnt how coordinating conjunctions work, now try to
    compose 10 pairs of sentences which have similar grammatical form, then
    connect them using the coordinating conjunctions mentioned above!
    This exercise should be done individually, and submitted before Sunday, October
    23rd 2022 at 08.00 p.m. via OASE.
    Thank you
    •https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/6649/8/Guided_writing_materials_Redacted
    .pdf
    • https://sites.google.com/site/tarqdirection/the-four-fields-of-
    functional-language/procedure-text
    THANK YOU

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