Demonstrative vs Determiner - What's the difference?
demonstrative | determiner |
that serves to demonstrate, show or prove
* Hooker
given to open displays of emotion
* Blair
(grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to
(grammar) A demonstrative word
# A demonstrative adjective.
# A demonstrative pronoun.
(grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
(grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
* 1901 : Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
In grammar terms the difference between demonstrative and determiner
is that demonstrative is a demonstrative word while determiner is a dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.As an adjective demonstrative
is that serves to demonstrate, show or prove.demonstrative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an argument necessary and demonstrative
- demonstrative eloquence
Derived terms
* demonstrative adjective * demonstrative pronounNoun
(wikipedia demonstrative) (en noun)determiner
English
Noun
(en noun)- The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,
