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Determiners and Quantifier

Determiners modify nouns by indicating how specific or general they are and usually appear at the beginning of noun phrases. Determiners include definite and indefinite articles, possessives, demonstratives, and interrogatives. Quantifiers also modify nouns to indicate quantity and include words like any, all, many, much, most, some, a few, a lot of, a little, and cardinal numbers.

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Determiners and Quantifier

Determiners modify nouns by indicating how specific or general they are and usually appear at the beginning of noun phrases. Determiners include definite and indefinite articles, possessives, demonstratives, and interrogatives. Quantifiers also modify nouns to indicate quantity and include words like any, all, many, much, most, some, a few, a lot of, a little, and cardinal numbers.

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Determiners

Determiners modify nouns by setting a limitation over the nouns to indicate how specific
or general they are. A determiner usually appears at the beginning of the noun phrases and
works as an adjective to modify the nouns. However, determiners are not necessary for
every noun phrase.

Determiners include:

a. The definite article: the


Example:
o Give me the book I read to you yesterday. (Specific book)
o I want the pencil you borrowed yesterday.

b. The indefinite articles: a, an


Example:
o Give me a book from the shelf. (A general/random book from a specific shelf)
o I want an apple.

c. The possessives: my, your, his, her, our, their, its, whose
Example:
o My car is parked outside. (Specific car)
o His house is near the bridge.

d. The demonstratives: this, that, these, those


Example:
o This is my book.
o That house belongs to me.
o Those ducks are beautiful.

e. Interrogatives: which, what


Example:
o Which car do you want to buy?
o What product do you use?
Quantifiers
Quantifiers are also determiners which modify a noun to indicate its quantity. The
quantifiers are any, all, many, much, most, some, a few, and a lot of, a little, a large
amount of, none, and the cardinal numbers [one, two, three, four], etc.
Example:
o I have some money but not a lot of it.
o Many people died in that calamity.
o Jeff went to many places regarding this project.
o There was a lot of people in the concert.
o Alice had some fruits only.
o Lisa has much knowledge about this topic.
o We have enough food in the refrigerator.
o I am a bit busy.
o Merry drank a little water.
o Try to have some patience.

Note: There are some rules for using determiners and quantifiers. Some of them can be used
only with countable nouns and some of them with uncountable nouns while others can be
used with either of them. Here is a chart for the determiners to be used with countable or
uncountable nouns.

With Countable Nouns With Uncountable Nouns

a/an, the the


this, that, these, those this, that
none, one, two, three,. . . . . . none
many much (in negatives or questions)
a (great/large) number of a large amount of
a few a little
few little
fewer . . . . than less . . . . than
a lot of a lot of
some some
any any

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