Determiners

Determiners

1. They are words precede any pre-modifying adjectives in a noun phrase.

   • Classes of determiners
     • Pre determiners
       • Multipliers
         • ex: double, twice, four/five times.
       • Intensifiers
         • ex: quite, rather and such.
       • Fractional expressions
         • ex: one-third.
       • are those determiners that come in front of a determiner.
     • Central determiners
       • Articles
         • the indefinite articles 'a/an', ex: in the morning, i bought a apple and a pineapple.
         • the definite articles 'the', ex: the teacher plays soccer every day
       • Demostratives
         • point out the person or thing, ex: i want to sell these pair of shoes
       • Distributives
         • Ex: every apartment has three bedrooms
       • Interogatives
         • Wh-determiners, what, whose, and which are used to ask questuins
           • Ex: What book are you going to use in this class
       • Possesssives
         • Ex: he told me his father about it
       • Quantifiers
         • give an indication of amount or quantity.
           • ex: few cities retain their old-world charm
       • are used before nouns.
     • Post determiners
       • Cardinal and Ordinal numbers
         • first, second, third, ect,.
           • ex: that was the second class in this month
         • cardinal: one,two, twenty.
           • ex: i have three notebooks
       • General ordinals
         • next, last, other, several, ect,.
           • ex: the last week was perfect.
       • are used after central determiners in a noun phrase to make the reference more precise.

2. They denote such referential meaning as:

   • Specific reference.
   • Generic reference
   • Definite or Indefinite quantity

3. Include

   • Articles
   • Possessive
   • Ordinal
   • General ordinals
   • Demostrative