May I try? (l) a siimple sentence. (2) it has a compound predicate. (3) the two predicates are connected by the coordinating conjunction "and"(4) predicate No. 1 = bought a box of colors. "box" is modified by "a" (an

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."

From my searching, I have found: Determiner Question words: which, what, whose In questions, these words ask which thing or person is being referred to. They are placed before the noun. Which dress are you going to wear tonight? What colour is

The Cambridge Dictionary refers to "his" as a "determiner" and as "a pronoun". The Oxford Dictionary uses the term "possessive determiner". And in the 1913 edition of Webster's, "his" was

While the OED suggests 'possessive adjective (in modern usage also classed as a determiner)' Interesting... has "modern usage" increased the number of parts of speech, or just sub-classified them? The latter, it would seem ...

Strictly speaking, it is a determiner (or an article!) rather than an adjective. That may be its function, but its part of speech is still adjective. Just before posting this, to be sure ... handy "Pocket Dictionary of Current English"

Students in Turkey also have problems with articles, but different ones to Greeks: there is no equivalent of the determiner 'the' in Turkish, so students will very often omit it, producing sentences such as: *Have you locked door?

... or "my car's door". According to my grammar book, "my car's door" is not correct. The "'s" construct is ... opposite. He believes that only foreigners would say "the door of my car". Who

I'm disagreeing with someone about the hyphen in or not in the following sentences: 'The term "birding" is of American ... commonly used word in Great Britain and Ireland and by non-birders in the United States.' Any