The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from t

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问题    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          【1】______
have "less meaning", but in fact some grammarians        【2】______
have called them "empty" words as opposed in the         【3】______
"full" words of vocabulary. But this is a rather misled  【4】______
way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like                           
the is not the name of something as man is, it is very                           
far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp        【5】______
difference in meaning between "man is vile" and                           
"the man is vile", yet the is the single vehicle of this 【6】______
difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words                           
differ considerably among themselves as the amount of    【7】______
meaning they have even in the 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           【9】______
go, man, say, car. Apart from this, however,                           
there is a good deal of truth in what some people                           
say: we certainly do create a great number of            【10】______
obscurity when we omit them. This is illustrated not
only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose
of telegrams and newspaper headlines.
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答案将number改为amount或deal。

解析 短语a number of后跟复数名词,例如:She enjoys taking long walks,but soon discovered that there were a number of dogs on the island which were allowed to run free.她很喜欢长距离散步,但很快发现岛上有很多条狗,主人不加管束,任其乱窜。而a deal of和an amount of则后可跟不可数名词,例如:A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.大量的知识可以塞进空空如也的脑袋。A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times.A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.一定的忧愁、痛苦或烦恼,在任何时候对每个人都是必需的。一艘船如果没有压舱物,便不会稳定,不能朝着目的地一直前进。
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