The grammatical words which play so large apart in English grammar are for the most partsh

The grammatical words which play so large a

part in English grammar are for the most part

sharply and obviously different from the lexical

words. A rough and ready difference which may

seem the most obvious is that grammatical words 【1】______

have "less meaning", but in fact some grammarians 【2】______

have called them "empty" words as opposed in the 【3】______

"full" words of vocabulary. But this is a rather misled 【4】______

way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like

the is not the name of something as man is, it is very

far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp 【5】______

difference in meaning between "man is vile" and

"the man is vile", yet the is the single vehicle of this 【6】______

difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words

differ considerably among themselves as the amount of 【7】______

meaning they have even in the lexical sense. Another

name for the grammatical words has been "little

words". But size is by no mean a good criterion for 【8】______

distinguishing the grammatical words of English,

when we consider that we have lexical words as 【9】______

go, man, say, car. Apart from this, however,

there is a good deal of truth in what some people

say: we certainly do create a great number of 【10】______

obscurity when we omit them. This is illustrated not

only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose

of telegrams and newspaper headlines.

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