Grade 7 Grammar Lesson 5 Determiners
What are determiners?
How many types of determiners are there?
What are indefinite articles? Where are they used?
What are definite articles? Where are they used?
What are demonstratives?
Are quantifiers also determiners?
When do we use ‘few’, ‘little’, ‘a few’ and ‘a little’?
Determiners are words that determine a noun. They do not describe; they only point out the noun.
Compare
difficult task
(difficult describes task; it’s an adjective)
every climber
(every doesn’t describe climber; it’s a determiner)
The following act as determiners.