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प्रश्न
Why did the little man’s face wrinkle and frown?
उत्तर
The little man was an elf. He had not studied maths or English. So he was angry when called upon to do Patrick’s homework.
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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
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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.
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• to state possessives.
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• to state how things or people are distributed.
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| EXAMPLES | ||
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| INTENSIFIERS | What! Such! | Such impudence! |
| QUANTIFIERS | all, both, most | I like most people. |
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| DEMONSTRATIVES | this, that, these, those, another, other | That tree is in another garden. |
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| POSSESSIVES | ||
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| ORDINAL NUMBERS | first, fewer, much, more, less, least ......... . | It was my first tennis match. |
| QUANTIFIERS | ||
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| (ii) COMPOUND | a little, a lot of, a great deal of .... |
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Saw one not of his church
And Couldn't bring himself to give
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The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
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To warm the idle rich?
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of the wealth he had in store
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