The ability to understand a simple conversation packed full of function words demands social knowledge. All function words work in this way.

Words that are branded as content words are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Pronouns, articles, and prepositions are the function words, the words that make the sentence grammatically ...

This study of intra-text word frequency shows that frequent words fall into two groups: 1. Words common across texts: function words, pronouns, and copulas (BE forms). These words are common because ...