25 Examples of Numeral Determinants

Numeral Determinants

The numeral determinants are variable words that accompany the noun to specify its meaning and indicate the numerical relationships of the noun.

For example:

• The recital lasted a hour.
• The tenth floor has an amazing view.
• Could you put double mozzarella to my pizza?
• It is the second time I ask for silence.

The number and gender of the determiner always coincides with the noun it accompanies. The determinants are placed in front of the noun, except for certain occasions when they are placed behind them. In these cases, they are called determining adjectives because they fulfill an intermediate function between the adjective and the determiner.

Numeral determinants indicate order, quantity, number, divisibility, multiplicity, or distribution. In addition, they can serve as a pronoun or as a determining adjective.

Types of numeral determinants

Sentences with numeral determinants

CARDINALS

1. I had to present my thesis before two hundred people.
2. That gentleman has come in three opportunities.
3. My grandfather has fourteen grandchildren.
4. Melody had six puppies.

ORDINALS

1. Today we will have the third Comparative Anatomy class.
2. It is the quarter time I ask you to tidy up your room.
3. I held the third put in the mathematics olympics.
4. As I am short, I sit on the first row.

PARTITIVES

1. I took three quarters parts of the coffee thermos.
2. The recipe has a third liter of milk.
3. Wine one eighth of the people we expected.
4. I asked him half serving of chicken.

MULTIPLES

1. I printed to double face to avoid wasting paper.
2. I need the quadruple time to finish this project.
3. I ask double serving of salad, please.
4. We are surprised: the fivefold of people we had estimated.

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