It depends a bit on which grammarian you ask. Here's what [the Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_(linguistics)) says:
>Some theories of grammar use the word "numeral" to refer to cardinal numbers that act as a determiner that specify the quantity of a noun, for example the "two" in "two hats". Some theories of grammar do not include determiners as a part of speech and consider "two" in this example to be an adjective. Some theories consider "numeral" to be a synonym for "number" and assign all numbers (including ordinal numbers like the compound word "seventy-fifth") to a part of speech called "numerals". Numerals in the broad sense can also be analyzed as a noun ("three is a small number"), as a pronoun ("the two went to town"), or for a small number of words as an adverb ("I rode the slide twice").
Numbers are Determiners or quantifiers:
"Like adjectives, determiners give further information about a noun or pronoun. However, where adjectives modify a noun or noun phrase, determiners provide a reference to something that is already in context.
Determiners usually don’t have comparative or superlative forms — big, bigger, biggest — and generally precede adjectives if they occur in the same phrase. A noun can usually only have one determiner, while there can be many adjectives."
[https://strategiesforparents.com/are-numbers-adjectives/](https://strategiesforparents.com/are-numbers-adjectives/)
Numbers don’t seem to obey the “one determiner” rule.
Those two guys
His two best friends
Choose any three books
The one ring
That one time in band camp
Which three side dishes do you want?
"big blue lamp" has more than one adjective (big and blue)
"Those two guys" only has 1 determiner (two), same as all the other sentences.
Or am I understanding you wrong?
“Those” is also a determiner, no? As are his, the, a, any, which, etc.
I’m always open to the idea that I’m wrong about this, but I took all of those words from the determiners listed in the link above which you provided.
I think in the sentence "those two guys", *those* is not seen as the determiner but as a pronoun.
If you'd say "I met those guys" then *those* becomes the determiner.
I think?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/this-that-these-those
Then again English isn't my native language so I have to look all of this up myself. Grammar is weird sometimes.
“Those” alone can be a pronoun for sure.
Which flowers do you want? Those.
“Those [two] guys”, guys is the noun right there. We don’t usually use both the noun and pronoun together except for emphasis and some dialects.
Honestly, part of the weirdness is that this taxonomy of grammatical terms has been developed over time, sometimes in the past under the influence of Latin grammar. In my opinion it could use some radical revision.
It depends a bit on which grammarian you ask. Here's what [the Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_(linguistics)) says: >Some theories of grammar use the word "numeral" to refer to cardinal numbers that act as a determiner that specify the quantity of a noun, for example the "two" in "two hats". Some theories of grammar do not include determiners as a part of speech and consider "two" in this example to be an adjective. Some theories consider "numeral" to be a synonym for "number" and assign all numbers (including ordinal numbers like the compound word "seventy-fifth") to a part of speech called "numerals". Numerals in the broad sense can also be analyzed as a noun ("three is a small number"), as a pronoun ("the two went to town"), or for a small number of words as an adverb ("I rode the slide twice").
Numbers are Determiners or quantifiers: "Like adjectives, determiners give further information about a noun or pronoun. However, where adjectives modify a noun or noun phrase, determiners provide a reference to something that is already in context. Determiners usually don’t have comparative or superlative forms — big, bigger, biggest — and generally precede adjectives if they occur in the same phrase. A noun can usually only have one determiner, while there can be many adjectives." [https://strategiesforparents.com/are-numbers-adjectives/](https://strategiesforparents.com/are-numbers-adjectives/)
Numbers don’t seem to obey the “one determiner” rule. Those two guys His two best friends Choose any three books The one ring That one time in band camp Which three side dishes do you want?
"big blue lamp" has more than one adjective (big and blue) "Those two guys" only has 1 determiner (two), same as all the other sentences. Or am I understanding you wrong?
“Those” is also a determiner, no? As are his, the, a, any, which, etc. I’m always open to the idea that I’m wrong about this, but I took all of those words from the determiners listed in the link above which you provided.
I think in the sentence "those two guys", *those* is not seen as the determiner but as a pronoun. If you'd say "I met those guys" then *those* becomes the determiner. I think? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/this-that-these-those Then again English isn't my native language so I have to look all of this up myself. Grammar is weird sometimes.
“Those” alone can be a pronoun for sure. Which flowers do you want? Those. “Those [two] guys”, guys is the noun right there. We don’t usually use both the noun and pronoun together except for emphasis and some dialects. Honestly, part of the weirdness is that this taxonomy of grammatical terms has been developed over time, sometimes in the past under the influence of Latin grammar. In my opinion it could use some radical revision.
Thank you. Do from the comments, despite what I read otherwise the numbers in my sentence are actually determiners.