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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Determiner Vs Adjective

What is the difference between Determiners and Adjectives?
  

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A determiner is a word that comes before a noun and points it out without describing it the way that an adjective does. org/wiki/Category:English_determiners ) The articles "a" and "the" are determiners. "That" and "this" in the following sentence are determiners: This book is more interesting than that one.

  • A determiner is a word that comes before a noun and points it out without describing it the way that an adjective does.
  • org/wiki/Category:English_determiners ) The articles "a" and "the" are determiners.
  • "That" and "this" in the following sentence are determiners: This book is more interesting than that one.
  • An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words.
  • An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.
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A determiner is a word that comes before a noun and points it out without describing it the way that an adjective does.
(Check this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_determiners )
The articles "a" and "the" are determiners.
"That" and "this" in the following sen

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