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Tammy Bullis, Pei-ju (Cody)Ho & Sherry MacKay are Determined to Help You Understand Determiners!

The Determinators

Determiners (Prenominal Modifiers)Signal nouns in one of three ways.

They define the relationship of the noun to the speaker, listener, or reader.

They identify the noun as specific or general.

They quantify the noun specifically or refer to quantity in general.Count and Noncount nounsSingularPluralCount Nounsa hamburgerhamburgersNoncount NounsjazzqualityXXXXXXCount noun a noun that can be made pluralNoncount noun a noun that can not be made plural.Concrete- coffeeAbstract - information

Types of Noncount Nouns1. Things that come in very small pieces - sugar2.Whole made up of similar parts-sets of things - luggage3. Names of subjects of study - Biology4. Abstractions - courage5. Liquids/fluids - blood6. Gases - air7. Solids/minerals beef, gold8. Sports/types of recreation basketball, homework9. Natural phenomena - snow10. Diseases - diabetes

A1-CTypes of Determiners TypesExamples

Articles (a, an, the)Did you buy your sweetie a Valentines Day card?Demonstrative determiners (this, that)This is a big box of chocolates!Possessive determiners (my, his)My boyfriend isnt very romantic.Nouns as possessive determiners (Sultanahs friend)Jias boyfriend must miss her. Quantifiers (all, any, few, many)

All of the children exchanged Valentines day cards.Types of Determiners continuedTypeExamplePartitives (glass of)Lets raise a glass of wine to our love.Cardinal numbers (one, two)Do you want one or two roses?Ordinal numbers (first, second)This is my first Valentines Day in the U.S.Multipliers (double, three times)Hes going to spend three times the amount he spent of her present last year.Fractions (three-fourths)One-half of all married women wish their husbands would be more romantic.Order of Determiners in Noun Phrases1) PredeterminersQuantifiers (all, both, each)

Multipliers (double, twice, five times)

Fractions (three-fourths, two-fifths)

Order of Determiners in Noun Phrases2) Central determinersQuantifiers (any, every, some)

Articles (a/an, the)

Possessive determiners (my, our, your)

Nouns as possessive determiners (Agnims, Sus)

Demonstrative determiners (this, that)Order of Determiners in Noun Phrases3) PostdeterminersQuantifiers (many, much, few, little, less, least, more, most)

Cardinal numbers (one, two)

Ordinal numbers (first, last, next)

Partitives (loaf of/jar of)

A2-CDemonstrative DeterminersSingularPluralThisTheseThatThoseFour Dimensions of Demonstrative Determiners1) Physical Distance

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Four Dimensions of Demonstrative Determiners2. TimeMore distant in time vs. more immediate in time.(That/Those) refer to something that happened farther back Ex: We went skiing that winter.

(This/These) refer to something that happened more recentlyEx: We went skiing this winter.

Four Dimensions of Demonstrative Determiners contd 3. Information Packaging Noun phrases with this/these often introduce new information

1. Non-referential/existential there constructionsEx: There is this class at CSUSB that you have to take!

2. Without thereEx: So we went to this crazy party, which turned out to be a party for our department.

Four Dimensions of Demonstrative Determiners contd4. Relevance: high/lowThis/That precede head nouns that have high relevance for the speakerEx: Who has the right to try a man for a crime like genocide? Why, certainly it must be the courts of the nation in which this terrible crime was committed.That/Those precede head nouns that have low relevance for the speakerEx: Who has the right to try a man for a crime? Why, certainly it must be the courts of the nation where that crime was committed.

W1-CQuantifiersA set of determiners that indicate an amount or number of something.

W2-CWhen to Use Quantity WordsBefore plural count nouns:Before both:Before non-count nouns:so many/too manyFRIENDSa lot ofFRIENDS

TRAFFICSo much/too muchTRAFFICmanysomeA littlefewnoSo little/too littleso few/too fewanymuchUse no and some in affirmative statements. Use any in negative statements and questionsUse much in negative sentences. Use a lot of in affirmative and negative sentences

Quantifier FloatingAll, both and each can occur in more position in a sentence.Ex:All of the students are creative.Part of the subject NP All the students. The students all are creative. After the noun when of is deleted. The students are all creative. After the verb.Quantifier Pronoun FlipWhen all, both and each appear in an NP whose head is a pronoun, they must be followed by of and the pronoun is therefore in the object form.Ex: All (of) his girlfriends got rings. All of them got rings. Both of them got rings. Each of them got ringsX All them got rings. The quantifier and pronoun can optionally switch positions through a rule called quantifier-pronoun switch. When this happens, the pronoun, which no longer follows of, has the subject form. Ex: They all got rings.PartitivesMultiword expressions containing a count noun + of (ex. piece of cake) that denote a unit by which a following head noun can be counted.

A can of soupA bag of flourA bottle of ketchupA bunch of grapesA carton of eggsA loaf of breadW3-C19Possessive DeterminersSingularPluralmyouryouryourhis/her/itstheirPossessive determiners and possessive pronouns appear to be similarDifferent syntactic categories based on environment

Determiners only occur in NPs preceding head nounsEx: He told my boyfriend. Pronouns occur only by themselves to mark things that have already been mentioned. x Ex: That chocolate heart is Caras and this one is mine.

Genitive Construction Of- Phrase Human & animals

a) Professors shiny black hair

b) the tigers paw

Entities, objects, long noun phrases

a) The roof of the houseb) The creations of a young designer

BothMonth, geographical locations

a) Decembers storms

b) The storms of December

Nouns as Possessive Determiners