English pronouns, determiners and quantifiers, Resúmenes de Idioma Inglés

¡Descarga English pronouns, determiners and quantifiers y más Resúmenes en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! DETERMINERS AND QUANTIFIERS e They indicate the kind of reference that the noun has. e The notion DET is thus related to that of reference. e There are different types of determiners based on their possible position. Uses of “the” Games and sports: | play football, He's good at tennis. Subjects of study: | studied literature at university. Languages: Many Welsh people speak Welsh, but most Scots speak English. But I'm English (nationality) Meals and clock times: What time do you have breakfast? About eight o'clock. Gerunds: Horse racing is more popular in. Collocations (P+N): be in bed, go to work, go to bed, on paper, by air/road/car/sea/bus. Weights and measures: Petrol ¡is sold by the litre. Musical instruments: Can you play the piano? Groups or classes of people: The young often get impatient with their parents. Rivers, seas, mountain ranges: The Amazon ¡is longer than the River Thames, The Mediterranean flows into the Atlantic Ocean, Mount Everest is the highest mountain of the Himalayas. [No the for the name C. Use and omission of “the”. of a single mountain, e.. Kilimanjaro]. Unique objects, points of the compass, some time expressions: The earth goes round the sun, the moon, the world, the north, the south, the past, the future.... But we were traveling north / toward the north // at present (=now, at this time), in future (=from now on). Rule: use the when talking about something specific; don't when speaking in a more general sense 1. Plural count N and mass N: She likes flowers — She liked the flowers that | gave her. Coffee ¡is expensive nowadays — The coffee you bought is very bitter. Abstract N: | always admire honesty — | was surprised at the honesty with which she answered the questions. Species of animals: when we talk about animals in general we use the plural without “the”. When we refer to particular species we can use either “The” and a singular N or a plural N without “the”. N + modifying phrase/clause: “the” is used when N is prodigies by a relative clause, or by a phrase including “of”: The life he ¡s leading bores him.