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DETERMINERS, Used with singular countable nouns, Used with uncountable…
DETERMINERS
Articles
Definite
(the)
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Other uses
Inference
- A woman and a child escaped from a house on fire. The accident happened (...).
Idiomatic
- in the main
- by the way
- at the end of the day
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Zero article
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Times of the day, days, months and seasons
- Tomorrow at dawn
- When winter comes
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Parallel structures
X and Y
for X to Y
- From country to country
- For mother and baby
- Eye to eye
- Face to face
Places as institutions
- The ceremony took place in church.
- They are prepared to go to jail.
Block language
Abbreviated language used in newspaper headlines, labels, lists, etc.
- Fire kills teenager after hoax.
Meals as institutions
- Are they going out for dinner or something?
Vocatives
- No hard feelings, Doctor.
- Do you want that, baby?
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Function words used to specify the kind of reference a noun has.
They can be combined with one another following a certain position.
Central determiners
- Articles
- Demonstratives
- Possessives
Postdeterminers
- Numerals (ordinals and cardinals)
- Semi determiners (same, other, next)
- Quantifiers
Predeterminers
- All, both, half
- Multipliers (double, twice)
- All the four races
- Both these problems
- Her first marriage
Numerals
Cardinal
Cardinal - Ordinal
- One - 1st First
- Two - 2nd Second
- Three - 3rd Third
- Four - 4th Fourth
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- Get up at seven
- Second floor
- The first three pages
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Demonstratives
Convey definite meaning and also specify wheter the referent is singular or plural and wheter the referent is near or distant.
This - Near countable singular noun
That - Distant countable singular noun
These - Near countable plural noun
Those - Distant countable plural noun
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Time reference
Compares now/then
- They're buying a house this year.
- They started at nursery that summer.
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Used with countable and uncountable nouns. It marks the noun as referring to something or someone assumed to be known to the speaker.
When a noun phrase refers to a whole class, rather than just one or more instance of the class