Which term describes words that function primarily as connectors for other words?

• A. Function words
• B. Content words
• C. Grammatical morphemes
• D. Formulaic

Answer: (A)

Words that function primarily as connectors for other words are function words. They provide the grammatical glue in a sentence, signaling how other words relate to each other and marking things like tense, number, definiteness, case, and prepositional or conjunctional relationships. They don’t carry much concrete meaning on their own, but they organize how content words (nouns, main verbs, adjectives, and adverbs) fit together. For example, articles like the, a; prepositions like in, on; pronouns like it, they; conjunctions like and, but; and auxiliary verbs like is, have all help connect and structure statements. In contrast, content words are the main carriers of meaning, while grammatical morphemes are small grammatical endings or particles attached to words to modify meaning, and formulaic expressions are fixed phrases rather than the connective elements themselves. So the term that best describes these words is function words.