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Determiner - Definition and Overview |
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Determiners are words which quantify or identify nouns. In English, determiners include articles, quantifiers, demonstratives, and possessive pronouns. They typically precede nouns and offer grammatical information about them (e.g. whether or not the nouns are indefinite or definite).
In languages that are more synthetic than English, determiners may be prefixed or suffixed to the noun, or even change the noun's form. e.g. Swedish bok (book), when definite, becomes boken (the book).
The following classifications are specific to English, and may not have equivalents in other languages. For example, articles (and definiteness) have no equivalent in Japanese or Czech.
Articles
Quantifiers
- all
- few
- many
- several
- some
Demonstratives
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| Near | Far
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| Singular
| this | that
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| Plural
| these | those
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Possessive pronouns
- her
- his
- its
- my
- our
- their
- your
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Example Usage of Determiner |
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Genevieve1982: Pub de Gomez. Ils ont sûrement tiré à la courte paille pour déterminer qui allait porter cette horreur http://twitpic.com/p1zpl #gohabsgo |
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aainaaridtz: C’est au journaliste, et à lui seul, qu’il revient de déterminer les limites de sa liberté d’expression http://bit.ly/HrIDp |
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oliviergrandin: L’Ille-et-Vilaine territoire d’expérimentation pour déterminer des indicateurs locaux de bien-être... Si, si... http://tinyurl.com/yz4c2xf |
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