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. There are several determiners with which we do not use an article. These include the demonstratives (this, that ), the possessives ( my, her, its , etc), some quantifiers ( no, every, each , etc) and the cardinal number ' one '. There is no TV here. There is not a TV here. The TV is...

Possessive adjectives are just one class of determiners. Articles, demonstrative adjectives, numbers, and quantifiers are other classes of determiners. my, his, ..., a, an, the, this, that, these, those, one, two, three, ..., some, all, every, many, ... are all determiners. So there is no...

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 .......

I've read many textbooks, done a lot of searches and I have yet to find a suitable answer to my question. Can a knowledgable grammarian please answer this question. What are determiners? I took this part from a textbook.... There are about 50 different determiners in the English...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these words kilometer centimeter Are 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...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: "depending on how I interpret" -- you mean I have the choice to adjust the verb form to the notion the subject suggests to me? and that it is a matter of taste? Invitations is the subject, thus, strictly speaking, only plural verb form is okay here. This is what I...

In many languages, adjectives usually occur in an unmarked order. However, some languages do not have this tendency. English is a language with a preferred order of adjectives. Native speakers pick this up as a matter of course; those who are learning it as an adult have to memorize it....

The following is from Mary Ansell's English Grammar: Explanations and Exercises . In your sentences, the numbers should precede the superlatives. Otherwise, one might get the feeling that there are several groups of 50 people each and you are selecting the most beautiful group. Usual Order...

An article is one kind of determiner ; there are only three articles-- a, an, the . Other determiners are demonstratives (of which there are only four: this, that, these, those ) and quantifiers , which give definite or indefinite numbers or quantities. There are many quantifiers-- all,...

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is " Does an English...