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How to pronounce “function word”
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Pronunciation guide for function word
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of function word with real speech in context.
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- Something Deeply Hidden
In particular, we dubbed this the wave function,
- Definition summary
- (linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.
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How to pronounce function word
Something Deeply Hidden
In particular, we dubbed this the wave function,
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.
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