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5 5 Determiners

Warm-up

In the given sentence, the determiners are missing. Insert the missing determiners and rewrite
these sentences in the given space.

1. They climbed tree. _____________________________________________
2. You will get information. _____________________________________________

3. He drank half of milk. _____________________________________________
4. Boys were present. _____________________________________________

5. It was quite shock. _____________________________________________

Determiners

Determiners are words placed in front of nouns or at the beginning of noun phrases. A determiner
tells us whether the noun is specific (definite) or general (indefinite).

Determiners are of different types.

Determiners

Articles Demonstratives Possessives Quantifiers Distributives Interrogatives
(a, an, (this, that, these, (my, our, (many, more, (each, every, (which, whose,
the) those) your, his, her, none, most, neither, either) what, how)
their, its) a few, much,

a little)

Articles are used to point out people, places, animals or things. Articles are of two kinds: definite
and indefinite.

Definite Article

The is a definite article. It is used before a noun to refer to a specific thing.

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