A POSSIBLE MISTAKE IN USING ENGLISH QUANTIFIES

Abstract

It is common knowledge that in the structure of the English noun phrase when its head is a common noun, the determiner is an indispensible element. The determiners can be realized by different word classes such as the article or zero article, numerals or quantifiers, etc. From his expereiences in learning and teaching English as a foreign language, the author of the article has realized that not a few
Vietnamese learners of English have the habit of putting the preopistion “of” between such quantifiers as “all”, “both”, “some”, “many”, etc. and indefinite nouns. This article deals with the possible reason for thisproblem: the learners’ confusion between the two partitive structures in English. At the end of the article, the author suggests a number of solutions to avoiding this mistake