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[5]: 74 Others, such as The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL), make the opposite terminological choice. [1]: 354 And still others (e.g., The Grammar Book [6]) use determiner for both the category and the function. This article uses determiner for the category and determinative for the function in the noun phrase.
A determiner combines with a noun to express its reference. [1] [2] Examples in English include articles (the and a), demonstratives (this, that), possessive determiners (my, their), and quantifiers (many, both). Not all languages have determiners, and not all systems of grammatical description recognize them as a distinct category.
a; a few; a little; all; an; another; any; anybody; anyone; anything; anywhere; both; certain (also adjective) each; either; enough; every; everybody; everyone ...
The Associated Press style guide agrees with the lower case. "Capitalize titles preceding and attached to a name, but use lower case if the title follows a name or stands by itself."71.2O2.86.94 —Preceding undated comment added 21:56, 16 August 2010 (UTC).
The canonical name format for the game [in English] for Wikipedia purposes is "nine-ball". Using nine-ball as the canonical example, the correct names of the game, outside the Wikipedia context, are (and grammatically must be) "nine-ball" or "9-ball", but we eschew "9-ball" on Wikipedia as a name of the game to avoid confusion between the game and the numbered ball.
The articles in English are the definite article the and the indefinite articles a and an.They are the two most common determiners.The definite article is the default determiner when the speaker believes that the listener knows the identity of a common noun's referent (because it is obvious, because it is common knowledge, or because it was mentioned in the same sentence or an earlier sentence).
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
English usage is not consistent, but generally prepositions and articles are not capitalized: "the Forest of Dean", "Gone with the Wind", "University of Southampton". With some publications "The" forms part of the title: "reading The Times". [23] For a more detailed explanation see Capitalization § Titles.