1. Function/Content Words

2. Function Words
-have little meaning on its own and are chiefly used to indicate a grammatical relationship
Prepositions of, at, in, without, between
Pronouns he, they, anybody, it, one
Determiners the, a, that, my, more, much, either, neither
Conjunctions and, that, when, while, although, or
Auxiliary verbs be (is, am, are), have, got, do

3. Content Words
-are words that carry the content or the meaning of a sentence
-bears reference to the world independent of its use within a particular sentence
Nouns John, room, answer
Adjectives happy, new, large, grey
Main verbs search, grow, hold, have
Adverbs really, completely, very, also,
enough

4. Differences between content and function words: Closed Class VS Open Class
The class of function words is closed. Languages
do not easily add new words to this set.
Closed-class words.
English has ~300 closed class words.
The class of content words is open.

5. Words invented in 2012 that won categories at the Annual Meeting of the conference American Dialect Society (Content words)
WORD OF THE YEAR
hashtag – a word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used on Twitter to mark a topic or make a commentary
MOST USEFUL
 -(po)calypse, -(ma)geddon – hyperbolic combining forms for various catastrophes
MOST CREATIVE
gate lice: airline passengers who crowd around a gate waiting to board 
MOST UNNECESSARY
amazeballs – slang form for “amazing.”
MOST EUPHEMISTIC
job creator – a member of the top one-percent of moneymakers.
MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED
marriage equality: legal recognition of same-sex marriage
LEAST LIKELY TO SUCCEED
YOLO: acronym for “You Only Live Once,” often used sarcastically or self-deprecatingly

6. Parts of Speech Review Noun
a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. 
Pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun.
Verb
express actions, events, or states of being
Adjective
modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying nouns.
Adverb
modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb, and indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree.
Answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".

7. Parts of Speech Review Preposition
Conjunction link words, phrases, and clauses to form a complete sentence.
(FANBOYS)
Interjection
word added to a sentence to convey emotion. It is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.
links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.