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******* words
******* words are words that have meaning. They can be compared to grammatical words, which are structural. Nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs are usually ******* words. Auxiliary verbs, pronouns, articles, and prepositions are usually grammatical words.

Example
‘We flew over the mountains at dawn'.

In the classroom
There is an important difference in pronunciation between ******* and grammatical words. ******* words tend to be stressed and grammatical words are often pronounced in a reduced form or with a schwa sound. Practice of this can be provided in listening comprehension activities that require learners to reconstruct what they have heard.