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Lesson 19 - Determiners and Quantifiers

DETERMINERS AND QUANTIFIERS

Determiners are a group of words which include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), possessive adjectives (my, their), numbers (one, two), and other words (any, both) that come before a noun, follow another determiner, or begin a noun phrase.

Determiners include quantifiers, which are words or phrases used before a noun to show its quantity. Examples of quantifiers are: all, many, much, most, one, some, a few, and a lot of, etc.

Determiners and quantifiers are useful in letting us know more about the noun that they refer. For example, this thing identifies something that is close at hand; her wig means the wig belongs to her; another donkey tells of one more donkey; and a few marbles refers to a small number of marble. 

 

  1. Definite and Indefinite Articles
  2. Demonstratives
  3. Possessives (Possessive Determiners)
  4. Distributives
  5. Quantifiers + Countable Nouns
  6. Quantifiers + Uncountable Nouns
  7. Quantifiers + Countable and Uncountable Nouns
  8. Some and Any