By Determiners, Nouns

CalifJim wrote:difference is a countable noun. Countable nouns in the singular require a determiner. no is a determiner. not is not a determiner. not negates the verb.So you can have the positive statement There is with the determiner no and noun the difference.Or you can have the negative...

Hi, Please tell me what these 'thes' are. What do you mean? -- Here, 'What' seems to be a pronoun as can be seen from "Do you mean what?." What is that? -- Looks to be a pronoun but not sure. What kind of poetry is this? -- Looks to be a determiner for the 'kind'.

The only thing that can come after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase is a noun phrase, usually a noun accompanied by its preceding determiner and perhaps an adjective. A relative clause may be added. The noun itself may be a gerund. If the element after the candidate for a...

Yoong Liat, No. Not necessarily better, but it's another way of expressing that thought which is equally grammatical. I've observed that the negation is quite often on the verb when the noun in question is concrete. Leaving the verb in the affirmative and negating the noun with the...

Hi, My Oxford Companion to the English Language defines 'quantifier' as 'a category of determiner or pronoun used to express quantity'. It mentions many, a few, few, several, much, a little, little, enough, some, any, much, a lot of, a great deal of. I hope that gives you the idea. Clive

difference is a countable noun. Countable nouns in the singular require a determiner. no is a determiner. not is not a determiner. not negates the verb. So you can have the positive statement There is with the determiner no and noun the difference. Or you can have the negative statement...

Beauty is ambiguous. It's both a proper noun, and thus the name of a person, and an abstract noun referring to the property of being beautiful. The most usual meaning of the beauty is the beautiful woman. the beast is that particular beast that the story is about, not just any beast, i.e.,...

Well, the excerpt you have posted is not very well thought through. Possessives here are obviously an open class-- my friend's, John's, Mary's, my dog's, his aardvark's, ad infinitum-- as are cardinal and ordinal numbers-- eight-hundred-and-forty-first, eight-hundred-and-forty-second....However,...

deer. Singular countable nouns in English must have a determiner. single is an adjective, not a determiner. It has nothing to do with meaning. That is, just because an adjective means the same thing or something similar to the determiner does not mean you can leave out the...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...