The phrase "the function it serves" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used when discussing the purpose or role of something. For example: - The function that a microscope serves is to magnify tiny objects for observation. - In our society, the media has a significant impact on shaping public opinion, and that is the function it serves. - The main function that a car serves is to provide transportation from one place to another.
After all, a particular trait is selected for the function it serves and thus its continual existence is explained by the utility it has for the organism.
Apple's crown takes the traditional watch crown as its primary design influence, but the function it serves is quite different.
The last response could fit the category of "functional explanations" as well an individual has a trait for the function it serves.
But the word "Bible" comes from the ordinary Greek word "biblos," or "book" — i.e., an ordinary object that can be bought and sold, which is the function it serves in the Maysles brothers' groundbreaking documentary "Salesman," from 1968.
The service is very simple, the web site nothing dazzling to look at, but the function it serves is of real importance.
But understanding both the mechanism and origins of this feeling allows us to be more aware of the function it serves.
Although Hepburn had spent much of the prior year searching for scripts with equally strong male and female parts for her and Tracy, she now requested that the O'Malley role be restored to the function it served in the novel (where O'Malley is impotent, troubled, and despairing of love) and her own part expanded.
As long as the festival continues, and continues to grow, it seems, the particular function it serves is of secondary concern to the organizers.
One of the hypotheses that attempt to explain physiological limitations of energy budgets is the symmorphosis hypothesis, which proposes that if matching structures to functional needs were combined with the strict economy of energy and materials, the result would be an optimal organ design for the specific function it serves.
It's important to note that a whiff of male inadequacy hovers around the whole process: although there are many situations in which AI is used (including on farm animals), the main function it serves is to a) supplement a heterosexual relationship in which the male is infertile; or b) in scenarios where there isn't a man in the picture to begin with.
Among the offerings is "Moorish Courtyard," a 1913 painting by John Singer Sargent in which the artist combines the grand proportions of a building's courtyard with the less glamorous function it serves by showing two donkeys in the foreground.
