Question

definition of determiners and types of determiners

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Determiners

The words which specify or determine the noun in a given sentence are called determiners.

Kinds of determiners are:

1. Articles (Definite and Indefinite) as Determiners

2. Quantifiers: They define the quantity or number of the noun.

Example:

• Can you add a little salt in the soup?
• Add some sugar to your tea.

3. Distributives

Examples:

• Each one of you will get an ice cream.
• Every responsible citizen must cast his/her vote.

These words express how things are distributed among people or in a group or individually. These words are called distributives.

4. Demonstratives: Demonstratives modify a noun. There are mainly four demonstratives – this, that, these and those.

Example:

• I like this cake.
• Sharpen these pencils.

5. Possessives: Possessives indicate the possession of singular, plural and even countable and uncountable nouns.

Examples:

• This is my pen.
• Let me refer your grammar book.

6. Interrogatives: Like all determiners, interrogatives come at the beginning of a noun to ask questions.

Example:

• Whose mobile phone was stolen?
• Which science fiction books do you wish to buy?