Hi,
Question (1)
in identifying parts of speech in the sentence:
"There are a few of my favourite things" (as in the song in 'The sound of music')
Is 'a few of' : an adjective, a quantifier, or a pronoun ? It's considered to be a pronoun.
BTW, isn't a quantifier the same as determiner, or is it 'a kind of' determiner?
There are various kinds of determiners. eg articles and possessives. Words like 'many' and 'few' are determiners, but as adjectives, eg 'I saw few people'.
Question (2)
in identifying sentence types, is the following sentence a simple sentence? I suppose it is since 'despite his illness' is only a prepositional phrase.
"Despite his illness, he still goes to work." Yes, it just has a single main clause.
Best wishes, Clive