This is a list of English determiners.

Alphabetical List (excluding numerals above three)

All cardinal numerals are also included.[1]:385

Sub classifications from CGEL[1]

Articles[1]:368

  • a / an
  • the

Demonstratives[1]:373

  • that / those
  • this / these

Personal determiners[1]:374

  • we / us
  • you
  • them (In some dialects such as the Ozark dialect.)[2]:6

Universal determiners[1]:374

  • all
  • both

Distributive determiners[1]:378

  • each
  • every

Existential determiners[1]:380

  • any
  • some

Cardinal numerals[1]:385

  • zero
  • one
  • two
  • three

four five million

  • etc.

Disjunctive determiners[1]:387

  • either
  • neither

Negative determiners[1]:389

  • no
  • none

Alternative-additive determiner[1]:391

  • another

Positive paucal determiners[1]:391

  • a few
  • a little
  • several

Degree determiners[1]:393

  • few / fewer / fewest
  • little / less / least
  • many / more / most
  • much / more / most

Sufficiency determiners[1]:396

  • enough
  • sufficient

Temporal determiners[1]:356

  • last
  • next

Interrogative determiners[1]:397

  • what
  • whatever
  • which
  • whichever

Marginal determiners[1]:392

  • certain
  • said
  • various

Relative determiners[1]:398

  • what
  • whatever
  • which
  • whichever

Compound determiners

  • a few, a little[1]:391
  • -body, -one, -thing, & -where[1]:411
    • anybody, anyone, anything, anywhere
    • everybody, everyone, everything, everywhere
    • nobody, no one, nothing, nowhere
    • somebody, someone, something, somewhere
  • once, twice, thrice[3]:581
  • one hundred, two thousand, three million, etc.[1]:356
  • many a[1]:356
  • whatever, whichever[1]:396

Other grammars

Genitive

Pronouns[4]:61

  • my, your, his, her, our, their
  • its
  • whose
  • one's

Nouns

Any genitive noun phrase such as the cat's, the cats', Geoff's, etc.

Predeterminers[4]:68

  • half, a third, a quarter, etc.
  • such, quite, rather
  • twice, thrice
  • both, all
  • double, triple, quadruple, etc.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey K (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43146-0.
  2. Randolph, Vance (1927). "The Grammar of the Ozark Dialect". American Speech. 3 (1). doi:10.2307/451386. ISSN 0003-1283.
  3. Payne, John; Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2007). "Fusion of functions: The syntax of once, twice and thrice". Journal of Linguistics. 43 (3): 565–603. doi:10.1017/S002222670700477X. ISSN 0022-2267.
  4. 1 2 Collins COBUILD English grammar. London: Collins. 1990. ISBN 0-00-375025-6.
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