英语单词短语词组“grammar/british-grammar/determiners-the-my-some-this”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析-英汉词典

Determiners are words such asthe, my, this, some, twenty, each, any, which are used before nouns:

thecountryside	somepaper	thisold sofa
myfather	fivegreen chairs	eachperson

Determiners include the following common types:

Articles:a/an, the

Demonstratives:this, that, these, those

Possessives:my, your, his, her, its, our, their, x’s(possessive’s)

Quantifiers:(a) few, fewer, (a) little, many, much, more, most, some, any, etc.

Numbers:one, two, three, etc.

Here is a list of the determiners included in this book. Many of them have individual entries:

(a) few, fewer, fewest	every	most	that
(a) little	half	much	the
(an)other	her	my	their
a/an	his	neither	these
all	its	no	this
any	Jim’s,Anna’s, etc.	one,two,three, etc.	those
both	least	our	what
each	less	several	which
either	many	some	whose
enough	more	such	your

Sometimes we don’t use a determiner before the noun. We call this ‘zero determiner’:

Dogslovebiscuits.

See also:

A/anandthe

Determiners have two main functions: referring and quantifying.

Referringmeans showing us who or what the noun is pointing to or talking about. The most common types of determiners which we use for referring are articles, possessives and demonstratives:

A:
Where’sthenewspaper?
B:
It’s onthesofa. (themeans the noun refers to something the speaker and listener both know or are familiar with)

A:
Have you seenmyMP3 player anywhere?
B:
Yes. It’s onthekitchen table. (myrefers to something which belongs to the speaker;therefers to something the speaker and listener can both identify because they both know or share knowledge about it.)

Do you wantthisbag or are you going to put it inthatbox?(thisrefers to something near the speaker;thatrefers to something further away.)

Charles is looking forhisdictionary. Have you got it?(hismeans the noun refers to something belonging to a male, in this case,Charles.)

‘Quantifying’means showing how much of something there is, or how many:

Fivepeople were arrested during an anti-war demonstration in London today.

There aresomeletters here for you.(somemeans a non-specific, small number or quantity of something.)

Do you haveenoughflour to make the bread.(enoughmeans a quantity that is sufficient or adequate for something).

Determiners (the, my,some,this)

What do determiners do?

Referring

Quantifying