What
Are Determiners in English?
Determiners
in English Grammar
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It is
important to construct sentences that are correct. In order to construct a
correct sentence in English, we need to know the different aspects of
constructing a sentence. If we know ‘what’, ‘how’ or ‘when’ a particular word
should be used, it is easier.
What are
determiners?
In English,
determiners are words which are mostly used to:
- Define a noun which
can be a thing or a person.
- State the quantity or the number of things or people.
- State the possessives.
- State specificity to
a thing or a person.
- State how things or the person can be distributed.
- State, how one noun is different from the other nouns?
- State whether something or someone is not specific.
There are
different types of determiners in English Grammar. Each of those
specific determiners is being used by the following few rules of English grammar.
The use of determiners mainly depends on the type of noun that we are
trying to describe.
The standard rules for using determiners are:
·
Singular nouns will need a determiner
·
Plural noun generally does not need a determiner
·
For nouns which are uncountable the use of
determiners are optional i.e. you may or may not use the determiners.
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Articles such as ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ are determiners.
Examples
· I like a cat.
·
He used the book.
·
I am going to state.
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Demonstratives such as ‘these’, ‘those’, ‘that’, ‘this’, etc. are also
used as determiners.
Example
· I saw those birds fly away.
· I know this chapter.
· I think this time is right.
· Who is that fellow?
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The possessives such as ‘our’, ‘their’, ‘my’, ‘hers’, ‘his’, ‘whose’,
etc. are also used as determiners.
Example
·
This is our bed.
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That is his pencil.
·
This is my bed.
·
Whose pencil is this?
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Quantifiers such as ‘few’, ‘a few’, ‘many’, ‘much’, ‘each’, ‘every’,
‘some’, ‘any’ etc. are also used as determiners.
Example
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I saw a few foxes in the forest.
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I have a few chocolates left.
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I have many chocolates left.
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How many chocolates do you have?
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How much price are you expecting for the thing?
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Each people here in this ally are poor.
·
Every person in this community is rich.
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Do you have any chocolates left?
·
I have some chocolates in my bag.
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Numbers such as ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’, ‘twenty’, ‘forty’, etc. are also
used as determiners.
Example
·
I have one paper exercise left to study.
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I saw three birds.
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I saw forty turtles beside the ocean.
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Ordinals such as ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘1st’, ‘2nd’,
‘3rd’, ‘last’, ‘next’, etc. are also used as determiners.
Example
·
He is the first person to state the truth.
·
The next station in Durban.
·
The last station is in London.
Unless you know
the use, it is difficult to grasp its application. You become more proficient as
you practice and read more into English literature and grammar. Read more and
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