In Determiners^x, Verbs^x

That's ok, JK. Yes, you could say: 'Businesses try to maximise their profits.' I'm not sure how you'd add 'economist' to that, though. {My, your, their, our, his, her, its} are possessive determiners. These act like adjectives: 'my book', etc. {mine, yours, theirs, ours, his, hers, its} are...

Guest, It was just to show that "the" is not a required element of the structure. To illustrate it better I probably should have shown some of the examples with "the", some with "a", some with "my", and so on, as well the ones without a determiner. Sorry if I confused you somehow. Jim

Dear teachers, Are the following sentences correct ? 1) He’s stingy ENOUGH for his wife to leave him. (intensifying adverb) 2) My uncle has ENOUGH money to buy an aeroplane. (determiner and not an intensifying adverb ?) Many thanks, Hela

The rule seldom changes, but you have it backward: 'determiner before adjective': A funny teacher This angry moderator My happy wife The order changes occasionally, as in some exclamations ('how funny a teacher he is!'), but the rule holds better than most English rules of grammar and...

'Enough' when it modifies a noun is a determiner. It usually precedes the noun, but uncommonly follows it. 'There is enough food for everyone' = 'there is food enough for everyone'. When 'enough' modifies an adjective or adverb, on the other hand, it usually follows it: 'I'm hungry enough to...

(1) Do you often make pudding? How is it made? => 'often', note the spelling 'o-', not 'a-', is a frequency adverb. => 'How' is an interrogative adverb. (2) She is actually a writer; She is quite famous, too. => 'actually' is an adverb. You can move it around, like this, Actually, she is a...

I got one reply to my original post from Mister Micawber, but no reply to my second post. So here is the discussion so far. (Is there a better way to bring a thread back for further...

The modifier is not part of the noun. A proper noun is limited to the proper name of any individual person, place or thing. It is considered a noun phrase in itself (Eiffel Tower). Whether it is preceded by a determiner (the Eiffel Tower-- the real one-- or my Eiffel Tower-- the toy one) is...

Hi Taka, Yes I've found the reference-- it's over in 'adjectives', and has to do with the rather anomalous order of adjectives with intensifiers 'how, too' etc. where the order of indefinite article and attibutive adjective is reversed. So, just as we cannot have 'X how lovely flowers these...

Yes, it is possible for a noun phrase to have two heads, or more. If "NHS" mrefers to both the clinics and the centres (not just to the clinics) then the head is, as you said, "clinics and centres". I don't know in which way you are asked to go about syntactic analysis. What I would do, however...