All posts tagged "determinative"
The Word ‘another’ Is Not an AdjectiveIf I had to pick a single grammar topic to focus on for the rest of my life, I would likely...
English DeterminersMarch 6, 2020- Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Determiners
As I have written repeatedly, the line between grammatical forms is blurry at best, especially among lexical categories like noun, verb,...
English DeterminersNovember 27, 2019 - Not All Forms That Function as Adverbials Are Adverbs
The other day I read a tweet that made some claims about adverbs: “The -s in “unawares,” as in “they were...
English AdverbsMay 1, 2019 - Are ‘Yesterday,’ ‘Today’, and ‘Tomorrow’ Nouns or Adverbs?
Are the words yesterday, today, and tomorrow adverbs or nouns? Oxford Living Dictionaries identifies all three words as an adverb first...
English AdverbsApril 14, 2019 - Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Nouns and Adjectives
Notional grammars define adjectives as “words that describe nouns.” Big, cute, green, small, and wonky are prototypical adjectives. In big bully,...
English AdjectivesMarch 31, 2019 - Determiners Are Not Adjectives
Traditional grammars categorize determiners with either adjectives or pronouns. But determiners are not adjectives. Repeat after me: Determiners are not adjectives....
English AdjectivesJanuary 12, 2019 - English Determiners
Determiners are a closed class of words that provide information such as familiarity, location, quantity, and number about a noun phrase...
English DeterminersJune 1, 2018 - Grammatical Forms of English Determiners
Determiners are a closed class of words that provide information such as familiarity, location, quantity, and number about a noun or...
English DeterminersMay 29, 2018 - The Determiner Phrase Head in English Grammar
Determiner phrase heads are words that function as the heads of determiner phrases. A determiner phrase consist of two or more...
Grammatical FunctionMay 26, 2018 - The Numeral in English Grammar
Belonging to a closed class of words, determiners provide information such as familiarity, location, quantity, and number about a noun or...
English DeterminersJune 17, 2014 - The Quantifier in English Grammar
Determiners are a closed class of words that provide information such as familiarity, location, quantity, and number about a noun or...
English DeterminersJune 6, 2014 - The Possessive Interrogative Determiner in English Grammar
Determiners are a closed class of words that provide information such as familiarity, location, quantity, and number about a noun or...
English DeterminersJune 3, 2014 - Grammatical Forms of English Verb Phrases
A verb phrase is a phrase in which a verb functions as the head of the phrase plus any auxiliaries (modals,...
English VerbsApril 29, 2014 - The Possessive Determiner in English Grammar
Determiners are a closed class of words that provide information such as familiarity, location, quantity, and number about a noun or...
English DeterminersMarch 6, 2014 - Using Determiner Phrases as Determinatives
Belonging to a closed class of function words, determiners provide information such as familiarity, location, quantity, and number about a noun,...
English DeterminersOctober 23, 2013
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