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    Determiners


    Determiners are a marker of nouns. They include articles, possessive nouns and pronouns; demonstrative pronouns; quantifiers; indefinite pronouns; and numbers.

    Main Groups of Determiners

    Articles

    a/an, the

    Note: the is a definite article
    a/an is an indefinite article

    Demonstratives

    this, these, that, those

    Possessives

    my, our, your, his, her, its, their

    Indefinites

    some, any, no, every, other, another, many, more, most, enough, few, less, much, either, neither, several, all, both, each

    Cardinal Numbers

    one, two, three, four ...

    Ordinal Numbers

    first, second, third, ... last

    Rules:
    1. Determiners don not occur with any of the adjective-forming derivational suffixes, like –able or –ly.
    2. Determiners do not have comparative or superlative forms: tall, taller, tallest
    3. Determiners will not fit in both slots of the adjective test frame sentence. The ______ man seems very ______.
    4. Determiners always precede any adjective or noun modifiers of a noun, as does the in the expensive car stereo.
    Tests:
    1. None at this time.


     

     


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