Question

Why is there different names for determiners and articles?

Answer 1

Different names are given to Articles and determiners because determiners is a wide term which includes articles. There are 4 types of determiners - definite, indefinite, possessive and quantifiers. This division makes understanding of their usage easier.

-Determiners - The words that are used before a noun to express the specificity or definiteness like this, that, his, her, few etc .

-Articles - Articles are the most common type of determiners. They refer to the words that are used to modify a noun like a, the an.