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.