Functional Word Classes

in, at, above, for prepositions

around, near, under prepositions

behind, to, from prepositions

on, with, about prepositions

before, by, below prepositions

over, into, during prepositions

in front of, adjecent to, inside of prepositions

according to, because of prepositions

the determiners

a / an determiners

this, that determiners

these, those determiners

some, many, a lot, enough determiners

my, your, his determiners

and, or, but, (for = instead of because) coordinating conjunctions

nor, yet, so coordinating conjunctions

if, because, since subordinating conjunctions

even though, although, until subordinating conjunctions

rather than, as, if only if subordinating conjunctions

he, she, it pronouns

they, we, you pronouns

I, me, my pronouns

mine, this, that pronouns

mine, yours, his, hers pronouns

ours, yours, theirs pronouns

be, have, do primary auxiliary verbs

can, could, may modal auxiliary verbs

did, will, could modal auxiliary verbs

might, shall, would modal auxiliary verbs

look up, get away, bring up adverbial particles

gave up, came back, sit down adverbial particles

where, what, who wh-words

why, when wh-words

how, that wh-words

one, two, three cardinal numerals

first, second, third ordinal numerals

hello, ouch, well inserts

wow, okay, now inserts

mmm, pfft, um, err inserts

existential there

negator not

infinitive marker to

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