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Distributives
The determiners used to refer to a group of people or things are called the distributive
determiners. They also refer to individuals within a group. Each, every, either, both and neither
are some distributive determiners.
Read the sentences given below.
• Both children were born in Italy. • Each boy wore a hat.
Quantifiers
The words or phrases that are used before nouns to indicate an amount or a quantity are called
the quantifiers.
Quantifiers are categorised according to their use with the type of nouns.
¾ Quantifiers used with countable nouns.
Read the sentences given below.
• There were are some books on the desk.
• There were a few horses grazing in front of the barn.
¾ Quantifiers used with uncountable nouns.
Read the sentences given below.
• There was not much milk left in the pot.
• I bought lots of sugar.
¾ Quantifiers used with both countable and uncountable nouns.
Read the sentences given below.
• There is plenty of water in the lake.
• There were a lot of people at the concert.
All, enough, more or most, less or least, no or none, not any, any, a lot of, etc. are some quantifiers
used with both countable and uncountable nouns.
Remember
A quantifier must agree with the noun in a sentence.
Interrogatives
The determiners used for asking questions are called the interrogative determiners. These are used
before nouns. What, which, how much, how many and whose are some interrogative determiners.
Read the sentences given below.
• Which road leads to the zoo? • Whose footprints are these?
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