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Determiners

ICSE · Class 8 · English Language: Grammar and Composition

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1. What Determiners Do

  • Determiners identify or specify a noun.
  • They point out which noun is being talked about.
  • An adjective describes a noun, but a determiner tells which one.
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2. Kinds of Determiners

  • The main kinds of determiners are articles, demonstratives, possessives, distributives, quantifiers, and interrogatives.
  • Articles are a, an, and the.
  • Demonstratives are this, that, these, those.
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3. Articles: a, an, the

  • There are three articles in English.
  • A and an are indefinite articles.
  • The is the definite article.
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4. Demonstratives: this, that, these, those

  • This and these refer to persons or objects close by.
  • That and those refer to persons or objects at a distance.
  • This is used before singular nouns.

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Determiners are words which identifyThere are three articles in EnglishA and an are used beforeThe is the definite articleNo article is used in

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