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DETERMINERS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Determiners of singular count, plural count, and noncount nouns.
        
        The definite article "the"
        
        Example: the furniture
        
        The possessive pronouns as determiners
        
        Example: my luggage
        
        The relative determiners "whose" and "which"
        
        Example: The lady whose cat
        
        The wh-determiners in -ever
        
        Example: Whosever idea
        
        The interrogative determiners "what", "which", "whose"
        
        Example: Which place?
        
        The negative determiner "no"
        
        Example: No problem
      - Determiners of plural count nouns and noncount nouns
        
        Zero article
        
        Example: play chess
        
        The assertive determiner "some" and the nonassertive determiner "any"
        
        Example: Some bread
        
        The quantitative determiner "enough"
        
        Examples: Enough paint
      - Determiners of singular count nouns and singular noncount nouns
        
        The demonstrative determiners "this" and "that"
        
        Example: That person
      - Determiners of plural count nouns.
        
        The demonstrative determiners
        "these" and "those"
        
        Example: These players
      - Determiners of singular count nouns
        
        The indefinite article a/an
        
        Example: A girl
        
        The universal determiners "every" and "each"
        
        Example: Each student
        
        The nonassertive determiner "either"
        
        Example: Either way
        
        The negative determiner "neither"
        
        Example: Neither party
  - - - all, both, and have
        
        Can come before articles, demonstratives and possessives.
        
        Example: Both your parents
        
        With singular count nouns we can use "half" and "all", but not "both".
        
        Example: all my house
        
        It's wrong to say "both my job"
        
        We cannot use "all", "both" or "half" before other quantifiers
        
        It's wrong to say "half some children"
      - The multipliers
        
        With singular count nouns and plural count nouns
        
        Example: twice the price
        
        double, triple, once, twice
        
        These specify the amount of objects mentioned in the noun phrase
      - The fractions
        
        both, half
        
        Example: Half the people at the party
        
        Used when talking about fractions of some amount
      - such, what
        
        These add certain emotional coloration to a noun phrase
        
        Example: What a beautiful morning!
    - - It's wrong to say "all both girls"
  - - - Closed-class quantifier
        
        include
        
        Many, (a) few, and several
        
        cooccur only with plural count nouns
        
        Example: Several mistakes
        
        Much and (a) little
        
        cooccur only with noncount nouns
        
        Example: (a) little money
      - Cardinal numerals
        
        coocurs with
        
        Singular count nouns
        
        Example: One sister
        
        Plural count nouns
        
        Example: two, three, etc brothers
      - Ordinal numerals and 'general ordinals
        
        Ordinal numerals
        
        Have a one-for-one relation with the cardinals
        
        Example: "First" with "one"
        
        'General Ordinals'
        
        next, last, past, (an)other,
        additional, and further
      - Open-class quantifiers
        
        Some of these can cooccur equally
        with noncount and plural count nouns
        
        Example: Plenty of/Lot of students
        
        Others are restricted to quantifying only noncount nouns or plural count nouns
        
        Example: A great number of students
    - - Postdeterminers follow predeterminers or central determiners
      - Usually precede any cardinal
        numbers in the noun phrase
        
        Example: The first two days
      - They precede any adjectives and other
        premodifying item