Postdeterminer vs Determiner - What's the difference?
postdeterminer | determiner |
(grammar) The function of a phrase that follows a determiner in a noun phrase and modifies the head noun.
;Examples
* Five'' in ''all the five boys .
* Sixth'' in ''use the sixth sense .
(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
As a noun postdeterminer
is (grammar) the function of a phrase that follows a determiner in a noun phrase and modifies the head noun.As a verb determiner is
to determine, establish.postdeterminer
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Alternative forms
*post-determinerNoun
(en noun)determiner
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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,