STRUCTURE IV
CONTENT WORD
COMPILED BY:
GILANG PRATIWI (2223102458)
IDA ADHA P (2223102607)
SITI NILAM CAHYA (2223102782)
HUSNUN APRIL YANTI (2223102477)
IV . E
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
SULTAN AGENG TIRTAYASA UNIVERSITY
2012
PREFACE
Praise to Allah SWT constituent pray for all the abundance of his
strength and guidance so that the compiler can resolve this report results
as a report that has been arranged in the form of a paper titled " Function
Words “
Authors would like to thank all those who have helped resolve this
paper both materially and spiritual. The compiled realize that in this paper
there are still many errors to the compiler expects intuk criticism and
constructive suggestions.
Finally, I hope this paper can be especially useful for authors and
readers in general.
CONTENT
Definition
content word
A word, such as a noun, verb, or adjective, that has a statable lexical
meaning, rather than indicating a syntactic function, as a function word
does.
(Linguistics) a word to which an independent meaning can be given by
reference to a world outside any sentence in which the word may occur
Compare function word, lexical meaning.
PRINCIPLE
In linguistics, a word class may be either an open class or a closed class.
Open classes accept the addition of new morphemes (words), through
such processes as compounding, derivation, inflection, coining, and
borrowing; closed classes generally do not.
Content words, or lexical words, (including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
most adverbs) are words that carry the content or the meaning of a
sentence and are open-class words. They contrast with function words,
such as articles, prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, and pronouns,
which can be found in almost any utterance, no matter what it is about.
Words in open classes (content and lexical words) carry the primary
communicative force of an utterance, and are variable in form (inflected).
Their distribution is not definable by the grammar.
Open-class words are not considered part of the core language[citation
needed] and as such they can be changed, replaced or dropped from the
common lexicon, which can encompass many thousands of them. For
living languages, this change is noticeable within an individual lifespan, and
usually faster. Closed-class words, on the other hand, are always relatively
few and resistant to change. They are unproductively and are generally
invariable in form (except demonstratives, modals and some pronouns).
Category
Description
Examples
Category
Description
Examples
people, places, things,
Patty, Seattle, cars,
and ideas
happiness
Nouns
main verbs
verbs without auxilliaries ran, swim, thinks
words that describe
adjectives
red, soft, careful
nouns
adverbs (except adverbs of words that describe
calmly, quickly,
frequency)
nouns
carefully
words that denote a
who, what, where,
question
when, why
words that negate
not, never
question words
negatives
content words are open class words (new words are being added in
every language).
Content Words
examples
Nouns
John, room, answer, Selby
Adjectives
happy, new, large, grey
Full verbs
search, grow, hold, have
Adverbs
really, completely, very, also, enough
Numerals
one, thousand, first
Interjections
eh, ugh, phew, well
Yes/No answers yes, no (as answers)
EXAMPLES
Example 1
"I have three apples" "have" is a content word (full verb)
Example 2
"I have one apple"
"one" is a content word (numeral)
Example 3
"no" is a content word (Yes/No
"No. I am not coming"
answer)
Example 4
"Ugh. You make me
"Ugh" is a content word
crazy"
(Interjections)
Example 5
"Jack. Don’t come
"Jack" is a content word (Nouns)
back again!"
Example 6
“She is a new student in my
“New” is a content word
class”
(Adjectives)
Example 7
“I’m really love you“
“Really” is a content word
(Adverbs)
Conclusion
Content is simply what is actually written. At times, form can dictate content. The sonnet form,
for example, usually contains idealized romance or a deep non-romantic affection. At times,
however, authors may choose to use unlikely content within a certain form to achieve an ironic
effect. In "The Waste Land" for example, T.S. Eliot briefly slips into a sonnet form to relate a
story of debased and mechanical love. Readers who are familiar with the sonnet form notice the
contrast, and this foregrounds the perversity of Eliot's characters.
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Refferences
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_class_(linguistics)
http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/contentwordterm.htm
http://strazny.com/encyclopedia/sample-function-words.html
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/wordclas/open.htm