[kde-doc-english]checking thesaurus documentation

[Éric Bischoff]

On Friday 03 May 2002 11:18, Frederik Fouvry wrote:
> | > > These are words that don't have a "meaning" but only a grammatical
> | > > function, e.g. "if".
> | >
> | > I think that, in grammar, the correct generic word for prepositions,
> | > conjunctions, etc is "connectors". Anyone please correct me if I'm
> | > right.
>
> I've never heard of the term "connectors" in this context, at
> least not in English.  But it describes roughly what function
> words are and do.

It was bad memories of mine, sorry. Connectors ("connecteurs") are only 
between sentence parts : "therefore", "then", "by the way", etc. They can be 
adverbs or conjunctions. It's more restrictive a notion than the "function 
words". I don't know if English grammars know this notion.