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Does the following stand for: American, British and Canadian English? In English titles the initial letters of the first word and of all nouns, pronouns (except the relative 'that'), adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinating
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sevilla
58 days ago
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Can the above definition also be extended to countable plural nouns? No. Countable plural nouns do not require a determiner. Example: Bills keep piling up on my desk. I must pay them some day! How many kinds of determiners are there in English?
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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
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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"
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blue sow
3 yr 100 days ago
Articles, Chat, Friendships, Speaking, Countries, Usages, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Colours, Possessives, Determiners, Speeches, Adjectives, Languages
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In some English sentences, use of an article or possessive pronoun appears to be optional. For example, the presence of a determiner in each pair below doesn't seem to have an effect on the meaning (to me anyway), but I suspect there might be
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usenet
6 yr 47 days ago
Pronouns, Numbers, Dialects, Plurals, Countries, Usages, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Arts, Writing, Accusative, Possessives, Prepositions, Determiners
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Really? Could you give me an example of a sentence in which it replaces a noun - possibly as the subject? Yes, and no, respectively. (Not as the subject, that is. Which proves nothing, since you can't give me an example ... analysis in which
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Something odd about this: I can't think of any grammar that classes the set 'my, your, his, her, our...' as genitive pronouns - they are always adjectives or determiners. If you had been discussing 'mine, yours, his, hers...'
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aaron j. dinkin
6 yr 113 days ago
Whom, Nouns, Possessives, Pronouns, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, American, Usages, Adjectives, Languages, Classes, Genitives, Determiners
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