The grammatical words which play so large a part inEnglishgrammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different fromthe lexical words.
A、rough and ready differencewhich may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words(1)______have "less meaning", but in fact some grammarians have (2)______called them "empty" words as opposed in the "full" words of (3)______vocabulary.But this is a rather misled way of expressing the(4)______distinction.Although a word like the is not the name of somethingas man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; (5)______there is a sharp 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 differconsiderably among themselves as the amount of meaning they (7)______have, even in the lexical sense.Another name for the grammaticalwords has been "little words."But size is by no mean (8)______a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words ofEnglish, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, (9)______man, say, car.Apart from this, however, there is a good dealof truth in what some people say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is illustrated(10)______not only in the poetry of RobertBrowing but in the proseof telegrams and newspaper headlines.