Determiners

Definition:

This is a relatively recent introduction to the world of grammar terminology and many older teachers/linguists may be unfamiliar with it.

• Determiners are a cluster of words which precede the noun (phrase) and determine definiteness, quantity, number or possession. Many very familiar words are determiners: each; every; no; some; most; all; both; many; few; several...
  
  
  
• The definite (the) and indefinite (a) articles are both determiners which define definiteness. Other determiners include:
  
  

  Definiteness	Quantity	Possession	Number	Demonstrative
  The	Some	my	one	this
  A	Many	Its	two	that
  	Every	your	first
  	all	their	third

            

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