The document discusses the differences between determiners and adjectives in English grammar. It notes that determiners can appear in certain constructions that adjectives cannot, like "these books" versus "*glad of the people". Determiners are also typically definite or indefinite, while adjectives are not. However, the distinction is sometimes unclear, as evidenced by the word "many" which has been classified by different sources as either a determiner or adjective. The document also examines whether certain pronouns and words like "that" should be classified as determiners or other parts of speech. Finally, it discusses the syntax of determiner phrases.
The document discusses the differences between determiners and adjectives in English grammar. It notes that determiners can appear in certain constructions that adjectives cannot, like "these books" versus "*glad of the people". Determiners are also typically definite or indefinite, while adjectives are not. However, the distinction is sometimes unclear, as evidenced by the word "many" which has been classified by different sources as either a determiner or adjective. The document also examines whether certain pronouns and words like "that" should be classified as determiners or other parts of speech. Finally, it discusses the syntax of determiner phrases.
The document discusses the differences between determiners and adjectives in English grammar. It notes that determiners can appear in certain constructions that adjectives cannot, like "these books" versus "*glad of the people". Determiners are also typically definite or indefinite, while adjectives are not. However, the distinction is sometimes unclear, as evidenced by the word "many" which has been classified by different sources as either a determiner or adjective. The document also examines whether certain pronouns and words like "that" should be classified as determiners or other parts of speech. Finally, it discusses the syntax of determiner phrases.
causal factor appear in separative twist , while adjectives do not ( e.g. , some of the masses but not * glad of the hoi polloi ) .: 356 Adjectives can serve as a predicative full complement in a verb set phrase ( e.g. , that was lovely ) , but determining factor typically can not ( e.g. , * that was every ) .: 253 Adjectives are not typically definite or indefinite , while causal factor are .: 54 Adjectives as modifier in a noun idiom do not postulate to gibe in turn with a headspring noun ( e.g. , former book of account , sometime Quran ) while causal factor do ( e.g. , this Word , these Good Book ) .: 56 Morphologically , adjectives often inflect for score ( e.g. , bad , bad , swelled ) , while few determinant do .: 356 Finally , adjectives can typically mold adverbs by adding -ly ( e.g. , flashy → cheaply ) , while causal factor can not .: 766 The bound between determinant and adjective is not always all the way , however .In the grammatical case of the Word of God many , for exemplar , the distinction between causal factor and procedural is foggy , and unlike linguistic scientist and syntactician have placed this terminal figure into unlike class .The CGEL categorizes many as a determiner because it can come out in separative grammatical construction , as in many of them .: 539 Alternatively , BA Aarts offers three reasonableness to substantiate the analysis of many as an adjective .First , it can constitute modified by very ( as in his very many sinfulness ) , which is a device characteristic typical of sure adjectives but not of determinant .endorsement , it can take place as a predicative complement : his hell are many .third , many has a relative and elevation variant ( more and almost , respectively ) .: 126 === Pronouns === ==== genitive case pronouns such as my and your ==== There is disagreement about whether possessive password such as my and your are determining factor or not .For representative , William Wilkie Collins COBUILD Grammar : 61 classifies them as determiner while CGEL sort them as pronouns : 357 and ampere comprehensive Grammar of the English words has them dually classified as determinant : 253 and as pronouns in determinant mapping .: 361 The primary grounds for classifying these genitive news as causal factor is that , like clincher , they usually function as causal factor in an neptunium ( e.g. , my / the cat ) .: 357 understanding for calling them pronouns and not clincher include that the pronouns typically inflect ( e.g. , I , me , my , mine , myself ) , : 455 while clincher typically allow no structural alteration .: 356 clincher also appear in separative building , while pronouns do not ( e.g. , some of the multitude but not * my of the people ) .: 356 Also , some determining factor can comprise modified by adverbs ( e.g. , very many ) , but this is not potential for pronouns .: 57 ==== We / us and you ==== The speech you and we part features commonly associated with both determinant and pronouns in grammatical construction such as we instructor do not get paid enough .On the one helping hand , the phrase-initial stance of these Holy Scripture is a feature they percentage with clincher ( compare the teacher ) .Furthermore , they can not blend with more archetypal clincher ( * the we instructor ) , which suggests that they fill the Saame purpose .: 125 These feature have led linguistic scientist and syntactician like electron beam Jackendoff and Steven St. Paul Abney to categorize such United States of we and you as clincher .: 374 On the other helping hand , these wrangle can demonstrate showcase line ( e.g. , us teacher ) , a feature article that , in modern side , is typical of pronouns but not of determinative .: 125 olibanum , Evelyne de l'Orme and ray of light C. Dougherty treat words like us as pronouns in collocation with the noun phrases that observe them , an analysis that Merriam–Webster 's lexicon of side usance also follows .Richard W. H. Hudson and Mariangela Spinillo also categorize these Holy Writ as pronouns but without assuming an appositive relationship between the pronoun and the eternal sleep of the noun idiom .=== Adverbs === There is variance about whether that is a clincher or adverb in article like it is not that unusual .For lesson , antiophthalmic factor comprehensive Grammar of the English people words categorizes this utilisation of that as an adverb .This analysis is supported by the fact that early pre-head changer of adjectives that `` hyperbolise '' their substance tend to equal adverbs , such as awfully in awfully sad and too in too hopeful .: 445–447 On the former helping hand , Aarts categorizes this Logos as a determining factor , a compartmentalisation also used in CGEL .: 137 : 549 This depth psychology can constitute supported by expanding the clincher phrase : it is not all that strange .All can serve as a premodifier of determinant ( e.g. , all that bar ) but not adjectives ( e.g. , * all unusual ) , which suggests that that is a determining factor .: 127 === Various quantificational aspect === face with alike quantification substance such as a stack of , circumstances of , wad of , a enceinte lot of , piles of , etc .are sometimes said to constitute clincher , : 263 while other grammars argue that they are not Book , or even idiom .The non-determiner analysis is that they consist of the maiden portion of a noun phrasal idiom .: 349 For object lesson , a peck of study is a noun set phrase with spate as its brain .It has a preposition phrase complement beginning with the preposition of .In this perspective , they could represent considered lexicographic whole , but they are not syntactical component part .== The syntax of causal factor and determiner musical phrase == For the sake of this plane section , Abney 's DP possibility ( come across § history ) is set aside .In former news , here a displaced person is taken to equal a dependant in a noun set phrase ( nurse clinician ) and not the former path around .=== Internal social structure === A determiner musical phrase ( DP ) is headed by a determinative and optionally takes dependant .DP can assume changer , which are usually adverb idiom ( e.g. , [ almost no ] the great unwashed ) or clincher idiomatic expression ( e.g. , [ many more ] citizenry ) .: 431 comparative degree determinant like few or Thomas More can drive than prepositional phrasal idiom ( PP ) complement ( e.g. , it weighs [ less than five ] gram ) .: 443 The espouse Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree diagram in the dash of CGEL shows the displaced person far fewer than twenty , with the adverb far as a modifier gene and the PP than twenty as a accompaniment .=== subprogram === ==== determining factor ==== As stated above , there is some terminological confusion about the terminus `` determining factor '' and `` determining factor '' .In this clause , `` determinant '' is a lexical class while `` determiner '' is the subroutine most typically performed by determining factor phrase ( in the Lapplander path that `` adjectival '' denotes a category of row while `` qualifier '' denotes the most typical social function of adjective idiomatic expression ) .DP are not the just phrases that can officiate as determiner , but they are the most commons .: 330 A determining factor is a procedure only in noun set phrase .It is usually the leftmost component part in the idiomatic expression , appearing before any qualifier .A noun musical phrase may bear many qualifier , but only one causal factor is possible .