DETERMINERS

  • Determiners can express many meanings, such as number, quantity, distance, ownership, whether something is indefinite etc.
  • Determiners premodify noun phrases.
  • Determiners are a part of noun phrases and always come at the start of the noun phrase.
  • Some singular nouns must have a determiner.  “A dog barks.”
  • More than one determiner can come before a noun.  It is rare to see 3 determiners together: “All my many houses…“, “...once every other month“
  • Determiners can be premodified by intensifiers: “Less than ten people…“
  • Most determiners also function as pronouns.  For example “This food is good. ” “This is good.”

all + noun

A1, DETERMINERS, NOUNS, quantity

Predeterminers always come before central and post-determiners. This is because they provide more general information about the noun, such as how many or how often. Central and post-determiners, on the other hand, provide more specific information, such as which particular noun we are referring to.

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almost all & very few

ADVERBS, B2, degree, DETERMINERS, modify, phrases

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 51 in the category of adverbs/phrases is defined as: degree adverbs (‘almost’, ‘very’) to modify determiners. Adverbs phrases can be put together with degree adverbs such as “almost” and “very” to modify determiners, such as “all” and “few”. *.[RR] *.[DB] After removing a few unrelated results to the

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