Determiner
| A determiner, also called determinative, is a word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and generally serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context. That is, a determiner may indicate whether the noun is referring to a definite or indefinite element of a class, to a closer or more distant element, to an element belonging to a specified person or thing, to a particular number or quantity, etc. Common kinds of determiners include definite and indefinite articles, demonstratives, possessive determiners, cardinal numerals, quantifiers, distributive determiners, and interrogative determiners. | |
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| wikipedia:: Determiner |
- a word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and generally serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context
- e.g., articles, Demonstratives like this, that, distributives like each, every, and interrogatives like which what
- my, their, one, two, many, both,
- interrogative
- which
- what
- e.g., articles, Demonstratives like this, that, distributives like each, every, and interrogatives like which what
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