Determiners Flashcards
(6 cards)
Types of Determiners:
• Articles (a/an, the, zero article)
• Cardinal N° (one, two, 25)
• Ordinary N° (first, second, 70th, last, next)
• Multipliers (triple, twice, 10 times)
• Fractions (one-half, one-tenth)
• Demonstrative Determiners (this/that, these/those)
• Possessive Determiners (my, yours // ‘s with Nouns)
• Quantifiers (both, any, many, much, few)
• Partitives (slice of, glass of, bottle of)
Order of appearance:
• Pre-determiners, central determiners and post-determiners
Pre-determiners
- Quantifiers (both, all, each)
- Multipliers
- Fractions
Central Determiners
- Quantifiers (some, any, either, each, every, either, neither)
- Articles
- Demonstratives
- Possessives (N’s & PRN)
Post-determiners
- Quantifiers (few, little, many, more, less, only)
- Cardinal N°
- Ordinal N°
Articles
• A/An: with singular countable nouns, for individual general thing, first mention
• The: with singular & plural nouns, countable & uncountable nouns, for specific reference
• Zero article: things generally, uncountable plural nouns.