Determiners

 

Determiners

Determiners are the words that tell us whether the thing we are referring to is specific or general.  Determiners are placed before nouns or noun phrases.

Examples.

·         A boy is crying in the room.

·         This house is very old.

·         I am riding my bicycle.

·         What plan do you have to discuss?

·         Some children are playing on the ground

Determiners are grouped into the following types.

1. Demonstrative            2. Quantifiers      3. Possessives     4. Interrogatives   5. Distributives     

 6. Articles

Demonstratives:

Demonstratives are used to indicate whether an object or person is near the speaker or far from the speaker. Demonstratives this and that are used with singular nouns, and demonstratives these and those are used with plural nouns. Demonstratives this and these are used for the objects or persons near the speaker, and demonstratives that and those are used for objects or persons far from the speaker.

Examples:

·         This temple is built by our ancestors.

·         That building is very tall.

·         Those girls are students.

·         These mangoes are sweet.

Quantifier:

Quantifiers are the words that state quantity or amount of something. Quantifiers answer the question “How much?” or “How many?”

Uses:

Some quantifiers are used only with countable nouns: many, few, several etc.

·         There are many tall trees along the road.

·         Few students are sitting in the class.

·         There are several mistakes in your application.

 These quantifiers are used only with uncountable nouns: e.g. much, little, a great deal of, etc.

·         She drank little water from the glass.

·         He looked at the object with much curiosity.

·         She gave me a great deal of money.

The following quantifiers can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns: some, enough, all, more, less, most, least, lots of, a lot of, any, none, plenty of, etc.

·         I lost all my money.

·         All the participants were present there.

·         There is no water in the jug.

·         None of the girls is in the room.

·         I need some sugar.

·         Some children are sitting on the bench.

Possessives

Possessive determiners show possession or sense of belonging to someone or something. Possessive determiners are also called possessive adjectives.

The words– his, her, their, our and its are the possessives.

Examples:

·         Where is your car?

·         This is my shirt.

Interrogatives

Interrogatives are the words that modify nouns and ask questions. Interrogatives are placed before the nouns. What, whose, which are the interrogatives.

Examples:

·         Whose box is this?

·         Which book do you like?

Distributives

Distributive determiners are used to refer to each and every object or individual of a group separately. They describe how people or things are distributed, divided, or shared. Words such as 'each', 'every', 'all', 'half', 'either', 'neither', 'only', ‘both’ are the examples of distributives.

Examples:

·         Each member of the team was awarded.

·         Every soldier underwent a rigorous training schedule.

 

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