except add, ebb, inn These are one-syllable content words that begin with a vowel. I think that, psychologically perhaps, we like content words (nouns, verbs, etc., rather than determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions) to have at least three

Hi Clive, Thank you. I really need to pay more attention to the punctation and the determiner.

Mr. M. Is correct. The words "a, an, and the" are also called articles. A and an are called indefinite articles; "the" is called the definite article. You can read about articles in this article ! A determiner is a class of

. 'The' is a determiner, which is a sort of adjective. It indicates that specific objects are spoken of, perhaps one that were mentioned earlier. .

Superlatives can be preceded by a determiner for additional emphasis. See the section on "premodifiers with degrees of adjectives" in this link.

if I add a noun Adding a noun makes a sentence that is a bit non-standard in my opinion. what books he referred to actually means, and is better written, the books (that) he referred to . books is thus the real subject, not the entire clause,

Oh, am I stuck in this necessary/unnecessary grammatical terminology? I was driving my old green car.    I hope "my" isn't a pre-determiner.  Hi, Avangi What part of speech is 'my' here? My odd-enough analysis is/was:

I was driving my old green car. I hope "my" isn't a pre-determiner. Edit. What about "He came in second." I hope "second" is not an adjective modifying "he."

I'm fine with hyphens. I'm fine with compound nouns and adjectives. I'm fine with multiple adjectives modifying the same noun. I'm fine with adverbs modifying other adverbs, per definition. In attempting to answer LiJ's

What part of speech is 'second'? My terminology is: 'second' is an adjective or a pre-determiner and largest is also a determiner. The thing is, I think, determing whether it is an adverb/adjective could lead to something