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3 IDENTIFY KEY WORDS OF BASIC AS STATEMENTS, COMMANDS AND


FUNCTIONS
RESERVED WORDS
• Reserved words or keywords are the words which have predefined meaning in
BASIC
• A word that is define in BASIC for special purpose as a statement , command or
function is called resaved word or keyword .
• These are nearly 160 reserved words in GW-BASIC .
• Reserved words can not be used as a variable name. For example
LET Print = 5 > here Print is a key word and cant not be used as variable

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