Multiple choice

What is the term used for words which serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence?

  1. Lexical verbs

  2. Poison words

  3. Stop words

  4. Function words

  5. Content words

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Explanation

Function words (or grammatical words or synsemantic words or structure-class words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.