We can divide words into two types. Content words carry more meaning.
We say them with more stress. Function words carry less meaning. Example:
He doesn’t like to eat spicy or oily food in the morning.
Content words (stressed)
question words: what, where
nouns: fruit, dinner
most verbs: eat, like
adjectives: creamy, spicy
adverbs: fast, quickly
negative auxiliary verbs: don’t, isn’t
function words (unstressed)
article: a, the
pronouns: she, her
prepositions: at, in
conjunctions: and, or
the verb be: is, are
positive auxiliary verbs: does, do
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