function

1. Content and Function Words
IRMA SHINTA DEWI

2. Content Words
Give you information
:Noun: You,Table, Ship
Verb: Sink, Put,
Adjective: Soft, Clear
Adverb: Softly, Clearly

3. Content Words
While nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are
the most important content words, there are a few
other words that are also key to understanding.
These include negatives like no, not and never;
demonstrative pronouns including this, that, these
and those; and question words like what, where,
when, how and why.

4. Examples:
Nouns Verbs
house enjoy
computer purchase
student visit
lake understand
Peter believe
science look forward to

5. Examples
Adjectives Adverbs
heavy slowly
difficult carefully
careful sometimes
expensive thoughtfully
soft often
fast suddenly

6. Funtion words
unify between content words in a sentence.
Function words help us connect important
information. Function words are important for
understanding, but they add little meaning beyond
defining the relationship between two words.

7. Function words
Function words include:
Auxiliary verbs = do, be, have (help with
Prepositions = show relationships in time and
space
Articles = used to indicate specific or non-
specific nouns
Conjunctions = words that connect
Pronouns = refer to other nouns

8. Function words
• include auxiliary verbs, prepositions, articles,
conjunctions, and pronouns. Auxiliary verbs are
used to establish the tense, prepositions show
relationships in time and space, articles show us
something that is specific or one of many, and
pronouns refer to other nouns.

9. • Auxiliary verbs = do, be, have (help
with conjugation of tense)
• Prepositions = show relationships in time and
space
• Articles = used to indicate specific or non-
specific nouns
• Conjunctions = words that connect
• Pronouns = refer to other nouns

10. Example
uxiliary Verbs Prepositions
do in
has at
will though
is over
has been between
did under

11. Why study this?
• Knowing the difference between content and
functions words is important because content
words are stressed in conversation in English.
Function words are non-stressed. In other
words, function words are not emphasized in
speech, while content words are highlighted.
Knowing the difference between content and
function words can help you in understanding,
and, most importantly, in pronunciation skills.

12. Exercises 1
• Decide which words are function and content words in the following
sentences.
• Mary has lived in England for ten years.
• He's going to fly to Chicago next week.
• I don't understand this chapter of the book.
• The children will be swimming in the ocean this time next week.
• John had eaten lunch before his colleague arrived.
• The best time to study is early in the morning or late in the evening.
• The trees along the river are beginning to blossom.
• Our friends called us yesterday and asked if we'd like to visit them next
month.
• You'll be happy to know that she's decided to take the position.

13. How do it?
Please
1. Make it bold or italic for Content words
2. put the answer in wa group

14. QUESTIONS??
• IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE POST IT
TO WA GROUP

15. Thank you