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Grammar 6 – 7 Determiners Main points Generic类指 and specific reference特指 Where do articles come from? one---a, an 按其发音为准 ; the---that, this, these, those Give the names of each determiner: e.g. What does this word mean I bought a house whose window faces south. John’s brother gave my sister a lot of records, some tapes, three song books and a CD player. This is the second time for him to do so. Their house is about three times the size of ours. 他们的房子大约是我们房子的三倍。 1. Classification of determiners: 1 articles : a, an, the, 2 possessive determiner adj. : my, mine 3 genitive noun 名词属格: John’s, my father’s 4 demonstrative determiner 指示: this, these, such 5 relative determiner 关系： whose, which 6 interrogative determiner 疑问:what, which 7 indefinite determiner 不定: no, each, either, neither, some, any, all, half, many, a few, a little, enough, another 8 cardinal and ordinal numeral : 66, the second 9 Multiplicative倍数词 and fractional numeral分数: three times, twice, 2/3 10 quantifier 量词 : a lot of, lots of, plenty of, a large number of 2. Collocations between determiners and nouns With singular N-sin. only: 与名词单数搭配 e.g. There are trees on each side of the street. Because of typhoon neither shipment will arrive this week. Neither statement is true. are -- informal But: Neither of the books is of any use to me. each / neither / many a / such a + N-sin. With both N-sin. / N-pl: 与单数 / 复数搭配 e.g. The first immigrants from Three Gorges arrived yesterday. the first, the second, the last, the next The second quiz is in October. the first + N-pl, the second + N-sin 3. Word order p90--92 Order—‘pre-determiner + central determiner + post-determiner’: the order of the three determiners ‘前位-中位-后位限定词’的顺序 a pre-determiners: all, both, 2, 2/3, such a , etc. e.g. He has such a funny character. such beautiful flowers Note: Only such a is pre-determiner. b Central determiners: articles, demonstrative, possessive; genitive: a, the, this, my, Mary’