Determiners
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DETERMINERS
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DETERMINERS
An important role in English grammar is played by determiners. These are words that precede a noun and serve to express its reference in the context. A determiner is used to modify a noun.
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DETERMINERS
It indicates reference to something specific or something of a particular type. The determiner is used in every case to clarify the noun.
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DETERMINERS
The most common of these are the definite and indefinite articles –the, a and an. Other determiners in English include demonstratives such as this and that, possessives such as my and quantifiers such as all, many, three etc.
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DETERMINERS
Subject pronouns like I , you , he , etc. and possessive pronouns-mine, yours, his, etc. cannot be determiners because they can never be followed by a noun.
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DETERMINERS
Determiners are followed by a noun. For example
The carThis dressSome men
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
DEFINITE ARTICLEA definite article indicates that its noun is a particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener.
It may be something that the speaker has already mentioned, or it may be something uniquely specified.
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
DEFINITE ARTICLEThe definite article in English, for both singular and plural nouns, is ‘the’.
For example- A baby was playing with his toys in his room. The toys were scattered all over the room.
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
INDEFINITE ARTICLEAn indefinite article indicates that its noun is not a particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener.
It may be something that the speaker is mentioning for the first time.
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
INDEFINITE ARTICLEIts precise identity may be irrelevant or hypothetical.
The speaker may be making a general statement about any such thing.
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
INDEFINITE ARTICLEEnglish uses a/an, from the Old English forms of the number 'one', as its primary indefinite article.
The form ‘an’ is used before words that begin with a vowel sound (even if spelled with an initial consonant, as in an hour).
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
INDEFINITE ARTICLE ‘A’ is used before words that begin with a consonant sound (even if spelled with a vowel, as in a European).
For example -She had a house so large that an elephant would get lost without a map.
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
DEMONSTRATIVEDETERMINERSA demonstrative determiner modifies a noun:
These flowers are beautiful.
I like those houses.
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
A demonstrative pronoun stands on its own, replacing rather than modifying a noun:
This is good.I like those.
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TYPES OF DETERMINERSQUANTIFIERS
A quantifier, as the name signifies, expresses how much / how many of something exists/exist. Quantifiers are followed by nouns which they modify. Examples of quantifiers include: some, any, few, little, more, much, many, each, every, both, all, enough, half, little, whole, less etc.
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QUANTIFIERSSome quantifiers work with countable nouns but not with uncountable nouns. For example- “many horses,” but not “many water”. Others are used only with mass nouns. For example-“little water”
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TYPES OF DETERMINERS
POSSESSIVESPossessive determiners modify the noun following it in order to show possession. For example- my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their etc.
This is my house. (my is a possessive determiner. It is followed by the noun house which it modifies)
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