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    Determiners are words like articles (a, an, the) or possessives (my, your) that precede nouns and provide information about quantity, ownership, or other attributes. There are several types of determiners including articles, possessives, demonstratives (this, that), interrogatives (which, what), and numbers. Determiners define nouns and are required to make sentences grammatically correct, whereas adjectives are optional. Only one determiner is used per noun as they always precede adjectives and nouns.

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    Determiners are words like articles (a, an, the) or possessives (my, your) that precede nouns and provide information about quantity, ownership, or other attributes. There are several types of determiners including articles, possessives, demonstratives (this, that), interrogatives (which, what), and numbers. Determiners define nouns and are required to make sentences grammatically correct, whereas adjectives are optional. Only one determiner is used per noun as they always precede adjectives and nouns.

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    Determiners are words like articles (a, an, the) or possessives (my, your) that precede nouns and provide information about quantity, ownership, or other attributes. There are several types of determiners including articles, possessives, demonstratives (this, that), interrogatives (which, what), and numbers. Determiners define nouns and are required to make sentences grammatically correct, whereas adjectives are optional. Only one determiner is used per noun as they always precede adjectives and nouns.

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    DETERMINERS

    Possessive determiners
    Determiners are always placed before a noun and help Possessive determiners my, your, his, her, its, our
    define it. and their are used before nouns to show
    ownership. They should not be confused with
    Articles are determiners, and other determiners work possessive pronouns-for example, mine, yours,
    in much the same way: They are used in front of ours, and theirs-which replace, rather than precede,
    nouns to indicate whether something specific or the noun.
    something of a particular type is being referred to. their broomsticks

     Many sentences do not make sense without The broomsticks (plural noun) belong to the
    determiners. Adjectives, by contrast, are witches.
    optional; they color the words rather than
    Interrogative determiners
    glue them together.
    Interrogative determiners include which and what
     Most noun phrases only use one determiner,
    and are used before a noun to ask a question.
    but there are exceptions: for example, “all the
    bats” and “both my cats.” Which witch?
    What noise?

    Determiners and adjectives


    Determiners are often considered to be a subclass Numbers and quantifiers
    of adjectives and, like adjectives, they belong to Cardinal an ordinal numbers and other words that
    nouns and modify nouns. Unlike adjectives, express quantity are considered to be determiners
    there rarely is more than one determiner for when they appear before a noun. These include
    each noun, nor can determiners be compared or much, more, little, least, any, enough, half, and
    graded. They precede the noun and include whole.
    words like several, those, many, my, and your, as Beware of determiners such as much (singular) and
    well as articles (the, a, and an) and numbers. many (plural) that can only modify singular or
    plural nouns.
    Several furious members nine shrieking bats
    The determiner
    always precedes adjective plural This cardinal number is being used
    noun before a noun phrase (shrieking bats)
    any adjectives, as a determiner.
    which, in turn, much noise
    precede the noun.
    This determiner can only be
    Demonstrative determiners used with a singular noun.
    Demonstrative determiners give an idea of distance many bats
    between the speaker and the person or thing that This determiner can only be
    he or she is referring to. This (singular) and these used with a plural noun.
    (plural) are used to describe things that are nearby.
    That (singular) and those (plural) are used for
    things that are farther away. Identifying determiners
    Sometimes determiners look very similar to adjectives.
    This indicates a witch that witch One way of figuring out whether a word that precedes a
    who is not present noun is a determiner or an adjective is to try placing the
    at the meeting. this noise word at the end of the sentence, following a linking
    verb such as be. If the sentence makes sense, that word
    is an adjective; if it does not make sense, it is a
    The witches are discussing a noise they can hear –
    determiner.
    that of shrieking bats –so this is used.
    Several furious members
    This is an adjective because the
     Some words, such as each or all, are used both as sentence makes sense.
    determiners and pronouns. The rule to The members are furious. 
    This is a determiner because it
    remember is that a determiner is always followed
    doesn’t make sense.
    by a noun, whereas a pronoun sreplaces a noun.
    The members are several 

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