Pre-Determiners
Pre-determiners are modifiers of other determiners, nouns or articles; and they can be classified into three groups:
1. Multipliers
2. Fractions
3. Intensifiers
Also See:Quantifiers / DeterminersIntensifiers
Multipliers
Twice, double, three times, four times etc.
Examples:
I have called you
three times today.
We have gathered
four times the amount needed for the charity trip.
Fractions
One-third, two-thirds, three-fourths, half etc.
Examples:
I will leave in
half an hour.
They finished
three-fourths of the bridge.
Intensifiers
Such, what, rather, quite
Examples:
My wife is
such a beautiful woman.
What a
lovely day.
He is
rather a mean man.
It’s
quite an expensive car.
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