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Test Yourself

IV. Choose the quantifiers from those given in brackets to fill in the blanks.

1. I will go fetch _______________ (few/some) cold water for us.

2. _______________ (A little/Little) do we know of that strange old man.
3. This is the _______________ (third/three) time that they have shifted house this year.
4. _______________ (Little/Few) people can do the good work that he did.

5. May I have _______________ (much/some) more of that orange juice?
6. Do I have to repeat everything _______________ (two/twice) to you?

Distributives

Distributive determiners are used to show distribution. These indicate different ways of referring
to an individual member of a group. Each, every, either and neither are distributive determiners.

Each is used to refer to one of the two things.
l Each child was given a task.

Every is used to refer to more than one thing.

l Every part of my body is aching.
Either is used to refer to any one of the two things or people.

l I have bought two sweaters. You can take either of them.

Neither is used to refer to none of the two things or people.
l Neither of you could explain the topic.

Determiners and Adjectives

Determiners and adjectives look similar, but there are subtle differences between the two. They
differ in terms of the language as well as the position which they have in a sentence.

Determiners Adjectives

Determiners are words that make the Adjectives are used with nouns to make the
reference of nouns more specific. If I say meaning more specific. If I use the noun ‘car’,
‘this dog’, it is clear that I mean a particular it can mean any car. As soon as I say ‘a large,
dog which is near me. If I change it to ‘my red car’, I have given two of its attributes
dog’, I am saying something quite specific (size and colour). A noun is modified by its
about the ownership. adjectives.

Remember
Determiners always come before adjectives.

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