6-7 限定词 冠词.doc

Grammar
6 – 7
Determiners
Main points
Generic类指 and specific reference特指
Where do e from?
one---a, an (按其发音为准); the---that, this, these, those
Give the names of each determiner:
. What does this word mean?
I bought a house whose window faces south.
John’s brother gave my sister a lot of records, some tapes, three song books and a CD player.
This is the second time for him to do so.
Their house is about three times the size of ours. 他们的房子大约是我们房子的三倍。
1. Classification of determiners:
1) articles : a, an, the,
2) possessive determiner (adj.) : my, mine
3) genitive noun 名词属格: John’s, my father’s
4) demonstrative determiner 指示: this, these, such
5) relative determiner 关系: whose, which
6) interrogative determiner 疑问:what, which
7) indefinite determiner 不定: no, each, either, neither, some, any, all, half, many, a few, a little, enough, another
8) cardinal and ordinal numeral : 66, the second
9) Multiplicative倍数词 and fractional numeral分数: three times, twice, 2/3
10) quantifier 量词: a lot of, lots of, plenty of, a large number of
2. Collocations between determiners and nouns
With singular N-sin. only: 与名词单数搭配
. There are trees on each side of the street.
Because of typhoon neither shipment will arrive this week.
Neither statement is true. (are -- informal)
But: Neither of the books is of any use to me.
(each / neither / many a / such a)