English
Grammar
Determiners
Determiners are words placed in front of a
noun to make it clear what the noun refers to. They are words like the, an,
this, some, either, my or whose. All determiners share some grammatical
similarities:
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All determiners come at the beginning of a
noun phrase and before adjectives.
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Determiners limit or "determine" a
noun phrase in some way.
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We cannot have more than one of them in the
same noun phrase.
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If we do have more than one determiner, they
go in a very specific order.
Examples:
the dog
those
people
some
brown rice
either
side of the road
seven
pink elephants
your
oldest child
which car
Types of Determiners
Definite
article: the
Indefinite
articles: a, an
Demonstratives:
this, that, these, those
Pronouns
and possessive determiners: my, your, his, her, its, our, their
Quantifiers: a
few, a little, much, many, a lot of, most, some, any, enough
Numbers:
one, ten, thirty
Distributives:
all, both, half, either, neither, each, every
Difference
words: other, another
Pre-determiners:
such, what, rather, quite
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