Sentence examples for grammatical function words from inspiring English sources

Morphemes following a double hyphen are often (but not always) grammatical function words.

A causal origin of this deficit may be a specific processing impairment for certain kinds of lexical elements especially grammatical function words and inflectional affixes (Caplan, 1982 , 1987 Goodglass, 1997; Kolk, van Grunsven, & Keyser, 1985; Pulvermüller, 1995).

In one particular study, grammatical function words also elicited a left-lateralized component very similar in scalp topography to the syntactic negativity, with latencies as early as 160 milliseconds, whereas content words referring to objects and actions elicited a bilateral early negativity with the same latency (Pulvermüller et al., 1995).

Both Mandarin and Cantonese languages have a category of grammatical function word called a noun classifier, which is also common across many genetically unrelated East Asian languages.

Since the PTB format does not directly represent the grammatical functions between words, it is difficult to use it directly in applications.

Finally, since they are already categorized, grammatical categories called function words (e.g., articles, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs etc).

If you wish to be thorough about the grammatical function of this word, further determine whether a noun is countable or uncountable, whether a verb is transitive or intransitive, and so on.

Think about the grammatical functions of these words to test whether you have used the correct word.

15 The TROG-E is a test of receptive language that assesses comprehension of grammatical contrasts marked by inflections, function words and word order.

Some languages string together, or agglutinate, successive bits, each with a specific grammatical function, into the body of single words.

In rhetoric the term signifies the repetition of a word in an altered grammatical function, as in the line "Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death?" from William Blake's poem Jerusalem (1804), in which the word sleep is used as both a verb and a noun.