Determiner vs Dependent - What's the difference?
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(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
Relying upon; depending upon.
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(medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
Hanging down.
(US) One who relies on another for support
(grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
(grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
In grammar terms the difference between determiner and dependent
is that 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 while dependent is the aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.As an adjective dependent is
relying upon; depending upon.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,
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* (word class) determinativeDerived terms
* (in grammar) determiner phraseSee also
* * * article * demonstrativeReferences
determiner in Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP. ----dependent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
Noun
(en noun)- With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.)
