Numerals are determiners when they appear before a noun. In this position, cardinal numerals express quantity:
one book two books twenty books
In the same position, ordinal numerals express sequence:
first impressions second chance third prize
The subclass of ordinals includes a set of words which are not directly related to numbers (as first is related to one, second is related to two, etc). These are called general ordinals, and they include last, latter,next, previous, and subsequent. These words also function as determiners:
next week last orders previous engagement subsequent developments
When they do not come before a noun, as we've already seen, numerals are a subclass of nouns. And like nouns, they can take determiners:
the two of us the first of many
They can even have numerals as determiners before them:
five twos are ten
In this example, twos is a plural noun and it has the determiner fivebefore it.
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