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3. Determiners and Pronouns |
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A clear understanding of determiners and how they are used is important in order not to confuse with pronouns. The following examples illustrate the differences between them.
| Determiner |
Pronoun |
| This car is very expensive. |
This is a very expensive car. |
| That castle is haunted. |
That is a haunted castle. |
| The blue parrot is mine. |
My parrot is blue. (Possessive pronoun) |
| The candy bar in the box is hers. |
Her candy bar is in the box. (Possessive pronoun) |
| As can be easily noticed, the determiner always appears before a noun while a pronoun takes the place of a noun. |
Some quantifiers can be used with countable nouns, some with uncountable nouns and some with both countable and uncountable.
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