Three letter rule poets such as John Milton alternated between short and long forms for function words, depending on whether they occurred on or off the meter. For instance: While many function words have more than two letters ("and", "she", "were", "therefore", etc.), the exceptions to the rule are rather two-letter content words. Only a few of these occur commonly in most texts: the words "go" (which also has a functional usage in the idiom "going to do something"), "ox" and, especially in American texts, "ax". English grammar is relatively flexible about converting words of one class to another, allowing verbal uses such
Two Words as being: 'the perfect playground for these three to break character and address the American reality'. It was heavily praised by "Billboard", who described it as: 'perhaps the symphonic high point of the record'. West and Mos performed "Two Words" live with The Roots as a backing band on September 18, 2004 as part of "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" concert. Freeway has performed the song at his live shows for years and said himself that: "Everyone loves it." On one occasion, Freeway joined West for a performance of it at a Super Bowl party with Pepsi, which was at the