Determiners Determiners, or noun signals, are special adjectives used before nouns. There are different kinds of determiners.
The Articles The words a, an and the are called the articles. The words a and an are indefinite articles. They are used with singular nouns. Use a before nouns that begin with a consonant. Use an before nouns that begin with a vowel. John is reading a book.
Would you like a peach?
Is that a dog or a fox?
You’ll need a ruler and a pencil.
Is there also an entrance at the back of the building?
Have you ever seen an elephant?
I always take an apple to school.
Do you have an umbrella that I can borrow?
Would you like to live on an island? Notes Some vowels have a consonant sound as well as vowel sound. Use
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Do you like this picture or the other picture?
The other boys laughed at him.
I like the other music better.
Interrogative Determiners The words what, which and whose are used before nouns to ask questions. Interrogative determiners appear just before nouns. What time is it?
Which boy is your brother?
Whose pen is this?
Possessive Determiners The words my, your, his, her, its, our and their are used before nouns to show ownership. They are called possessive determiners. I gave my sandwich to John.
Notes
The possessive determiner your can be used when you are talking to one person or more than one person: I’m very angry with you, John. Your behavior has been very bad today. Jake and Josh, your dinner is ready. Is this your desk?
Alan crashed his bike into a wall.
Mrs. Park keeps her house very clean.
The dog was licking its paws.
There’s a snake in our garden.
Susan and Peter have invited me to their party.
This table will help you remember how to use possessive determiners. singular personal pronoun possessive determiner plural personal pronoun possessive determiner
I (subject pronoun) my we (subject pronoun) our me (object
These are all examples of questions he asked and wondered.
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The very first word of the entire article is the name of a person, and this is a
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These denoting phrases can be classed into either one of two groups; those containing definite descriptions and those containing indefinite descriptions.
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____________________1. Each of the members of the football team took (their, his) seat on the bus.
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