Determiner
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A determiner is a word such as an article, possessive, demonstrative that helps to identify things, or a quantifier that indicates how much or how many things are being referred to.
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[edit] Classes of Determiners
There are a number of classes of determiners:
- Definite and Indefinite articles
the, a, an
this, that, these, those
my, your, his, her, its, our, their
a few, a little, much, many, a lot of, most, some, any, enough
- Numbers
one, twenty, thirty, etc.
- Distributives
all, both, half, either, every, neither, each
- Difference words
other, another
Which, what, whose
- Defining words
which, whose
There are also pre-determiners which go before determiners, such as articles these include: such, what, half, rather and quite.
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