Question

What are determiners? How many types of determiners are there? Explain with examples. Explain all it's rules.​

Answer 1

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Determiners are the words that modify nouns.

Determiners function like adjectives. They are also called as fixing words.

Characteristics of Determiners

▪︎ A determiner may identify two or more persons or things.

▪︎ A determiner may indicate a quanity or amount.

▪︎ A determiner may determine or fix a place, person or things.

▪︎ A determiner may precede numberals or objects.

Classification of Determiners

Determiners can be classified into

1. Article : A, An, The.

2. Demonstrative Adjectives : this, that, these, those.

3. Quantifiers : This is a word or phrase which is used before a noun to indicate the amount or quantity.

The types of quantifiers are as follows

i. Definite

ii. Indefinite

iii. Distributive

iv. Difference

v. Comparative

4. Possessives: my, your, his, her, its, our, their, mine etc..

Examples of Articles- A, An, The

A women, A tree, A dog

An orange, An egg, An horse

The People, The Pen, The sen times

Examples of Demonstrative Adjectives- This, That, These, Those

▪︎My bat is better than that of my friend.

▪︎ Our soldiers are better equipped than those of Pakistan.

▪︎ This book is very interesting.

▪︎ Those flowers are very beautiful.

Examples of Quantifiers

▪︎ There are some books on the desk.

▪︎ How much money have you got?

▪︎ He's got more friends than his sister.

Examples of Possessive

▪︎ He is my brother.

▪︎ She is her friend.

Answer 2

Determiners occur before nouns, and they indicate the kind of reference which the nouns have. Depending on their relative position before a noun, we distinguish three classes of determiners. A sentence like this is somewhat unusual, because it is rare for all three determiner slots to be filled in the same sentence.

There are four types of determiner words in the English language. These types are known as articles, demonstratives, possessives, and quantifiers. Articles are words such as a, an, and the. Demonstratives include this, these, that and, those. Quantifiers are specific.