Question

He read ____ books he had.
Determiners​

Answer 1

Filling the blanks witj determiners:

The correct answer is:

He read the books he had.

Explanation:

English sentences have a primary structure or backbone on what it stands, which is:

Subject + verb + other parts of speech + tenses + object.

Now to highlight on the parts of speech

There are a few words that are considered as Determiners.

Determiners:

They are words placed mostly in front of a noun to specify what the noun refers to.

These determinants help to understand the object or what kind of noun it is.

The Determiners are : A, the, some, this, each.

If used in examples then,

• The mount Everest is the tallest mountain.
• Some kids are playing cricket in the park.
• A cat passed by the fence today.

All these Determiners help in specifying or highlighting the noun of that particular sentence.

Hence, the determiners required for the answer is The.

Answer 2

Answer:

The right determine for the blank space is 'the few'. So the complete sentence is :

• He read the few books he had.

Explanation :

• Determines determine nouns by identifying and quantifying. Here 'the few' is one of Adjectives of Quantity and Number.

• The few means - Negative = not many and Positive = all that is. So here the few is expressing that he did not read many books but read what he had.

• Example : The few students I invited are present.