| Content Words (more stress) | Function Words (less stress) |
| Nouns (paper, coffee, Mr. Smith) | Prepositions (it, on, for, with, at, above) |
| Main Verbs (talk, watched, need, find) | Determiners (a, the, some) |
| Adjectives (tall, blue, enchanting) | Helping verbs (I**’m going to** leave, She **has** seen it etc.) |
| Wh-words (why, what, how, etc.) | Conjunctions (for, and, **but**, **yet**, etc.) |
| Adverbs (slowly, nervously now, always) | Most pronouns (she, it, they, them, him, etc.) |
| Negation words (no, not, isn’t, won’t) | The auxiliary verb “**be/can/wll/have to/must**”  |
| Possessive pronouns (Those are **hers/mine/yours/theirs**.)	 |  |
| **This/that** as pronouns (She wants this.) | Demonstratives this/that/those/these: **this** is a book  |