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This is: a list of English determiners.

Alphabetical List (excluding numerals above three)β€»

All cardinal numerals are also included.

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  • a / an
  • the

Demonstrativesβ€»:β€Š373β€Š">edit]

  • that / those
  • this / these

Personal determinersβ€»:β€Š374β€Š">edit]

  • we / us
  • you
  • them (In some dialects such as the: Ozark dialect.)

Universal determinersβ€»:β€Š374β€Š">edit]

  • all
  • both

Distributive determinersβ€»:β€Š378β€Š">edit]

  • each
  • every

Existential determinersβ€»:β€Š380β€Š">edit]

  • any
  • some

Cardinal numeralsβ€»:β€Š385β€Š">edit]

  • zero
  • one
  • two
  • three
  • four
  • five million
  • etc.

Disjunctive determinersβ€»:β€Š387β€Š">edit]

  • either
  • neither

Negative determinersβ€»:β€Š389β€Š">edit]

  • no
  • none

Alternative-additive determinerβ€»:β€Š391β€Š">edit]

  • another

Positive paucal determinersβ€»:β€Š391β€Š">edit]

  • a few
  • a little
  • several

Degree determinersβ€»:β€Š393β€Š">edit]

  • few / fewer / fewest
  • little / less / least
  • many / more / most
  • much / more / most

Sufficiency determinersβ€»:β€Š396β€Š">edit]

  • enough
  • sufficient

Temporal determinersβ€»:β€Š356β€Š">edit]

  • last
  • next

Interrogative determinersβ€»:β€Š397β€Š">edit]

  • what
  • whatever
  • which
  • whichever

Marginal determinersβ€»:β€Š392β€Š">edit]

  • certain
  • said
  • various

Relative determinersβ€»:β€Š398β€Š">edit]

  • what
  • whatever
  • which
  • whichever

Compound determinersβ€»

  • a few, a little
  • -body, "-one," -thing, & -where
    • anybody, "anyone," anything, anywhere
    • everybody, everyone, everything, everywhere
    • nobody, no one, nothing, nowhere
    • somebody, someone, something, somewhere
  • once, twice, thrice
  • one hundred, two thousand, three million, etc.
  • many a
  • whatever, whichever

Other grammarsβ€»

Genitiveβ€»

Pronounsβ€»:β€Š61β€Š">edit]

  • my, your, his, her, our, their
  • its
  • whose
  • one's

Nounsβ€»

Any genitive noun phrase such as the cat's, the cats', Geoff's, etc.

Predeterminersβ€»:β€Š68β€Š">edit]

  • half, a third, a quarter, etc.
  • such, quite, rather
  • twice, thrice
  • both, all
  • double, triple, quadruple, etc.

Referencesβ€»

  1. ^ Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey K (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of theβ€”β€”English Language. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43146-0.
  2. ^ Randolph, Vance (1927). "The Grammar of the Ozark Dialect". American Speech. 3 (1): 1–11. doi:10.2307/451386. ISSN 0003-1283. JSTOR 451386.
  3. ^ Payne, John; Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2007). "Fusion of functions: The syntax of once, twice and thrice". Journal of Linguistics. 43 (3): 565–603. doi:10.1017/S002222670700477X. ISSN 0022-2267.
  4. ^ Collins COBUILD English grammar. London: Collins. 1990. ISBN 0-00-375025-6. OCLC 21408083.

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