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    Determiners are words that modify nouns and indicate whether the noun refers to something specific or general. The main types of determiners are articles, demonstratives, possessives, and quantifiers. Articles include the definite article "the" and indefinite articles "a" and "an". Demonstratives are words like "this" and "that". Possessives show ownership, like "my", "your", "his", etc. Quantifiers indicate quantity and include words like "some", "many", "few", etc. Determiners are always followed by a noun, unlike pronouns.

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    Determiners are words that modify nouns and indicate whether the noun refers to something specific or general. The main types of determiners are articles, demonstratives, possessives, and quantifiers. Articles include the definite article "the" and indefinite articles "a" and "an". Demonstratives are words like "this" and "that". Possessives show ownership, like "my", "your", "his", etc. Quantifiers indicate quantity and include words like "some", "many", "few", etc. Determiners are always followed by a noun, unlike pronouns.

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    Determiners are words that modify nouns and indicate whether the noun refers to something specific or general. The main types of determiners are articles, demonstratives, possessives, and quantifiers. Articles include the definite article "the" and indefinite articles "a" and "an". Demonstratives are words like "this" and "that". Possessives show ownership, like "my", "your", "his", etc. Quantifiers indicate quantity and include words like "some", "many", "few", etc. Determiners are always followed by a noun, unlike pronouns.

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    What are determiners?

    A determiner is used to modify a noun. It indicates reference to something specific or something of a particular type. This function is usually
    performed by articles, demonstratives, possessive determiners, or quantifiers.
    Determiners vs pronouns
    Determiners are followed by a noun.

    The man

    This book

    Some people

    Subject pronouns ( I , you , he , etc.) and possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, etc.) cannot be determiners because they can never be followed
    by a noun.
    Types of determiners
    Articles
    The definite and indefinite articles are all determiners.

    Definite article - the

    Indefinite article - a or an (a is used before a consonant sound; an is used before a vowel sound.)

    Examples:
    Close the door, please.
    I've got a friend in Canada.
    Demonstratives
    There are four demonstrative determiners in English and they are: this, that, these and those
    Note that demonstrative determiners can also be used as demonstrative pronouns. When they are used as determiners they are followed by the
    nouns they modify. Compare:
    This is my camera. (Demonstrative used as a pronoun, subject of the verb is)
    This camera is mine. (Demonstrative used as a determiner modifying the noun camera.)
    Possessives
    Possessive adjectives - my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their - modify the noun following it in order to show possession.
    Possessive determiners are different from possessive pronouns - mine, his, hers, yours, ours, their.

    Possessive pronouns can stand alone and are not followed by nouns.

    Possessive determiners, on the other hand, are followed by nouns.

    Compare:
    This is my house. (my is a possessive determiner. It is followed by the noun house which it modifies)
    Is that car yours? (yours is a possessive pronoun. It is not followed by a noun.)
    Quantifiers
    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.
    Quantifiers are commonly used before either countable or uncountable nouns.
    He knows more people than his wife.
    Little knowledge is a dangerous thing .

    Key to correction
    1.

    Could you bring me those

    books I left in the garden?

    2.

    The

    3.

    The doctor advised me to eat an

    4.

    There aren't many

    5.

    I haven't got any

    6.

    She gave a cookie toeach

    7.

    I've got to solve some

    8.

    (With a bowl of cherries on your lap) These

    9.

    My mother doesn't drink much

    10.

    I always keep some

    sun rises from the east.


    apple every morning.

    students in the library.


    pictures in my bedroom.
    child.
    math problems before I go to sleep.
    cherries are delicious!

    coffee.

    money in my wallet for emergencies.

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