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प्रश्न
Understanding determiners.
Determiners are words that are used in front of nouns to indicate whether you are
referring to something specific or something of a particular type.
Singular nouns always need a determiner. In plural nouns, the determiner is
optional. Determiners may or may not be used with uncountable nouns depending
on context.
There are about 50 different determiners in the English language which include:
Articles: a, an, the
Possessives: my, your, our, their, his, hers, whose, etc.
Demonstratives: this, that these, those, which, etc.
Quantifiers: few, a few, many, much, each, every, some, any, etc.
Number: one, two, three, twenty, forty, etc.
Ordinals: first, second, last, next, etc.
Determiners are used
• to state the unit/ number of people, things or other nouns.
• to state possessives.
• to specify someone or something.
• to state how things or people are distributed.
• to state the difference between nouns.
Determiners can be classified under the following categories:
EXAMPLES | ||
MULTIPLIERS | double, twice, three times... | We want double portions. |
FRACTIONS | half, a third, two fifths ..... | I drove at half speed. |
INTENSIFIERS | What! Such! | Such impudence! |
QUANTIFIERS | all, both, most | I like most people. |
ARTICLES | a, an, the | Get a book from the shelf. |
DEMONSTRATIVES | this, that, these, those, another, other | That tree is in another garden. |
DISTRIBUTIVES | each, every, either, neither | I have a gift for each person. |
POSSESSIVES | ||
(i) PRONOMINAL | my, your, his, her, its, our, your, their | You can borrow Kim's video. |
(ii) NOMINAL | Renata's, Adam's, People's ... | You can borrow my video. |
INTERROGATIVES | What? Which? Whose? | Whose book is that? |
QUANTIFIERS | some, any, no | I have no problem with them. |
CARDINAL NUMBERS | one, two, three hundred ..... | Two heads are better than one. |
ORDINAL NUMBERS | first, fewer, much, more, less, least ......... . | It was my first tennis match. |
QUANTIFIERS | ||
(i) SIMPLE | few, fewer, much, more, less, least ........... . |
I have few pals; Kim has more. |
(ii) COMPOUND | a little, a lot of, a great deal of .... |
I have lots of time to spare. |
उत्तर
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