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Revision as of 11:02, 21 April 2017
General characteristics:
- Determiners are functional words at the left of a noun phrase, i.e. they occur in environments such as __ student(s) called., Pat wondered about __ student(s).
Subclasses:
- Articles: a(n), the
- Demonstratives: this/these, that/those
- Quantifiers:
- simple quantifiers: all, much, some, few, little
- complex quantifiers: a couple, a few, a great deal of, lots of, not any, hardly any
- Numerals: two
Reference: Kaplan, Jeffrey P. (1989): English Grammar - Principles and Facts (2nd edition). New Jersey.
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