Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Articles, determiners, and quantifiers

On this web page (click on the post title to go to it) is an excellent explanation of what are called articles, determiners, and quantifiers. It helps us understand, for example, why "the number of" and "a number of" take different verbs.

2 comments:

Mitchell H. said...

Ah, I love this site--I've had it bookmarked forever. Another site I like for grammar is http://owl.english.purdue.edu.

Pat said...

Yes, the Owl site is very good too.