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 / Determiners
Intensifiers

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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