Content word意思

"Content word" is a term used in linguistics to refer to a word that carries meaning regarding people, places, things, or ideas. In other words, content words typically denote a concept or a specific element of the message being communicated. They are in contrast to function words, which are used to structure a sentence and express grammatical relationships, such as articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and pronouns.

Examples of content words include:

• Nouns: "dog," "tree," "John," "Mary"
• Adjectives: "happy," "sad," "big," "small"
• Verbs: "run," "jump," "love," "hate"
• Adverbs: "quickly," "slowly," "often," "rarely"
• Numerals: "one," "two," "three"
• Proper nouns: "Paris," "China," "Amazon"

Content words are essential for conveying the main message or topic of a sentence or a discourse. They are also known as open-class words because they can be easily added to a language (unlike function words, which are closed-class words and have a fixed, limited set).