What are determiners?
- Determiners to be words that come before you start of the noun phrase.
- They show whether the actual noun expression is specific or standard.
- Determiners tend to be either specific or standard.
The general determiners are: a, an, any, another, Other, what
the articles : a / an / the
demonstratives : this / that / these / those
possessives (aka possessive adjectives): my / your /his / her / its / our / your / their
For example:-
"The dog barked at the boy."
"These apples are rotten."
"Their bus was late."
"Have you seen my keys?"
The precise determiners are usually:
- the definite article: the
- possessives: my, your, his, her, its; our, their, whose
- demonstratives: this, that, these, those
- interrogatives: which
More general determiners are quantifiers:
| a few a little all another any |
both each either enough every |
few fewer less little many more most much |
neither no other several some |
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