Determiners and Qualifiers
Determiners and Qualifiers
Determiners and Qualifiers
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Summary<br />
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In their relationship to the form-classes, qualifiers<br />
are different from the determiners <strong>and</strong> auxiliaries<br />
in that they are optional<br />
– adjectives <strong>and</strong> adverbs they modify can appear without<br />
them<br />
– nouns <strong>and</strong> verbs face different situation<br />
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many nouns cannot appear without a determiner<br />
two of the verb forms – the -en <strong>and</strong> -ing forms – require<br />
auxiliaries to function as the main verb<br />
Like other structure word qualifiers signal the<br />
form classes<br />
– they provide a useful test to differentiate adjectives <strong>and</strong><br />
adverbs from other parts of speech
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