Determiners
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Determiners are words or phrases in noun phrases that modify or indicate what entities the noun refers to. For example, a determiner can constrain the meaning of the noun to a specific or non-specific, known or unknown entity, or a particular number of entities. Determiners include the following types.
- Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
- Definite and indefinite delimiters or articles: a, an, the (I prefer to use my own term delimiter instead of article)
- Possessive determiners: my, your, his,her,its,our, their
- Quantifiers: many, few, several
- Numerals: one, two; first, second
- Distributive determiners: each, any, both
- Interrogative determiners: which
