填空题

The grammatical words which play so large a part in English
grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from
the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may
seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have "less (1)____
meaning", but in fact some grammarians have called them (2)____
"empty" words as opposed in the "full" words of vocabulary. But (3)____
this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a (4)____
word like the is not the name of something as man is, it is very
far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp difference in (5)____
meaning between "man is vile" and "the man is vile", yet
the is the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. (6)____
Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among
themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in the (7)____
lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been
"little words." But size is by no mean a good criterion for (8)____
distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we consider
that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart from (9)____
this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people
say: we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we (10)____
omit them. This is illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browing
but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines.