Determiner vs Your - What's the difference?
determiner | your |
(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
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
* Glanvill
As a verb determiner
is to determine, establish.As a determiner your is
belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).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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* (English Citations of "determiner")Synonyms
* (word class) determinativeDerived terms
* (in grammar) determiner phraseSee also
* * * article * demonstrativeReferences
determiner in Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP. ----your
English
(wikipedia your)Determiner
- Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience .
- Is this your cat?
- Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
- Your Show of Shows
- Your World with Neil Cavuto
- Not Your Average Travel Guide
- Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.