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