Determiners

Determiners

1. Pre-determiners

   • They come in front of a determiner
     • They include
       • Multipliers
         • -Double -Twice
       • Intensifiers
         • -Quite -Rather -Such
       • Fractional expressions
         • -One -third

2. Central determiners

   • They are used before nouns
     • They include
       • Articles
         • The definite article (a/an) and the definite article (the)
       • Demonstratives
         • They point out the person or thing
       • Distributives
         • They show distribution
       • Interrogatives
         • what, whose, and which are used to ask questions
       • Possessives
         • They show someone's possession
       • Quantifiers
         • They give an indication of amount or quantity

3. Post-determiners

   • They are used after central determiners in a noun phrase to make the reference more precise
     • They include
       • Cardinal numbers
         • one, two, three etc....
           • Example: Can you distinguish yours from the other four kids?
       • Ordinal numbers
         • first, second, third
           • Example: This is the third meeting.
       • General ordinals
         • next, last, previous, other, several, subsequent, certain, further
           • Example: I will meet the other people later.

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