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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.2 - Famous firsts for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Look at the headlines from exercise 7c. Which are the content words (nouns, verbs, etc.)? Which are the function words (prepositions, auxiliary verbs, etc.)?

Answer

Content words

  • conservation, institute, United States, produced, wild kittens, cross-breeding cloned adult cats
  • American millionaire, succeeded, long-held ambition, circumnavigate, world, balloon
  • finally, story, man, entered, record books, world's most renowned eater, burgers

Function words

  • A, in the, has, by
  • An, has, in his, to, the, in a
  • And, the, of a, who has, the, as the, of