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2000改错 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 Browning but in the prose of telegrams and newspaper headlines. 2001 改错 During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if? 1.___ they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing? 2._______ favorite topic of conversation. ???? War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat prices were generally low in the autu