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Unit 2 Determiners 2.1 Classification of Determiners Determiners determine the referential or quantificational properties of the italicized noun expression which follows them: a. I bought a new battery from the local garage. b. I prefer this painting to that photo. c. My studio apartment is no bigger than your garage. d. All good comedians tell some bad jokes. Determiners include: articles (definite article定冠词, indefinite article不定冠词, zero article零冠词), possessive determiners物主限定词:my, your, his, her, our, your, their, one‘s, its genitive nouns名词属格: John’s, my friend’s demonstrative determiners指示限定词: this, that, these, those, such relative determiners关系限定词: whose, which interrogative determiners疑问限定词: what, which, whose indefinite determiners不定限定词: no, some, any, each, every, enough, either, neither, all, both, half, several, many, much, (a) few, (a) little, other, another cardinal基数词 and ordinal numerals序数词, fractional分数词 and multiplicative numerals倍数词, and other quantifiers量词: a lot of, lots of, plenty of, a great/good deal of, a large/ small amount/ quantity of, a great/ large/ good number of etc. 2.1.1 Determiners and Adjectives Similarity: both modify a noun Difference: functionally, the former is determinative and indispensable, while the latter descriptive and dispensable; word order: determiners are always before adjectives. 2.1.2 Determiners and Pronouns Quite a few determiners can be both determiners and pronouns determiners have the nature of adjectives and pronouns the nature of nouns. 2.2 Collocations between determiners and nouns The head of a noun phrase limits the choice of determiners, and when more than one determiner occurs in the noun phrase, there is the problem of word order between determiners. 2.2.1 Collocations between determiners and nouns singular count nouns, plural count nouns and noncount nouns 1) Determiners with all three classes of nouns Determiners such as possessive determiners, genitive nouns and the definite article as w