determiners

The general rule with determiners is the opposite of the Lay’s Potato Chips Rule: you can’t have more than one.

Compounding an Apostrophe Problem « Motivated Grammar 2008

The general rule with determiners is the opposite of the Lay’s Potato Chips Rule: you can’t have more than one.

2008 June « Motivated Grammar 2008

Today we would call them 'determiners' like the and my, because they 'determine' the character of the noun - making it interrogative, in this case.

Archive 2007-02-01 DC 2007

Today we would call them 'determiners' like the and my, because they 'determine' the character of the noun - making it interrogative, in this case.

On The Archers, whatever DC 2007

But when so much of Professor Weismann's system was accepted, other parts of it went along, including a hypothetical system of "determiners" in the chromosome, which were believed to determine the development of characters in the organism.

Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

Your editorial " Cancer Care's Rationers " Oct. 3 argues that "the patient, his family and care givers" should be the determiners of value in treatment decisions, and that this "moral dilemma" properly belongs "in the realm of individual choice."

Getting Real About Cancer Care and Medical Resources 2011

While its chapters are not exhaustive, it offers an accessible, balanced treatment of the major grammatical constructs and patterns of English; pertinent subsystems such as tense and aspect, articles and determiners, and adjectives and adverbs; and offers not only a morphosyntactic treatment so common to other volumes but also a discussion from the perspectives of discourse and usage.

The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher’s Course, Second Edition « Books « Literacy News 2009

Women, the researchers found, are far more likely to use personal pronouns like "she" and "he," while men prefer determiners like "that" and "this" — women, in other words, talk about people, while men prefer to talk about things.

Tech tools tackle Biblical scholarship 2011

Women, the researchers found, are far more likely to use personal pronouns like "she" and "he," while men prefer determiners like "that" and "this" — women, in other words, talk about people, while men prefer to talk about things.

Tech tools tackle Biblical scholarship 2011

Yet, higher education institutions - which are one of, if not the most important determiners of our nation's economic prosperity - are not measured by output.

Elisa Stephens: Universities Should be Rated Based on Output, Like the Rest of Society Elisa Stephens 2010