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Quantifiers are used with uncountable nouns. For example:

There was not much milk left in the pot.
O
There was little money in the house.
O
I bought lots of sugar.
O
Quantifiers that can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns. For example:
Could I have some butter, please?
O
Some more quantifiers that can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns are all,
enough, more/most, less/least, no/none, not any, any, etc.

Rememberemember
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A quantifier must agree with the noun in a sentence.

Interrogatives

Interrogative determiners are used for asking questions. These are used before nouns.
What, which, how much, how many, and whose are some interrogative determiners. For
example:
What kind of clothes do you like to wear?
O
Whose dog is barking in the middle of the night?
O
Practice Time

A. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles and put 7 where no article is needed.
1. I bought _______________ pair of earrings.
2. I read _______________ nice book last night.
3. He is _______________ honest man.
4. I am not really interested in _______________ cricket.

5. That is _______________ new girl I told you about.

6. We had _______________ amazing experience on the trip.
7. My flat is _______________ one next to Garima’s.
Determiners B. Fill in the blanks with suitable demonstrative determiners.
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_______________ Eiffel Tower is in Paris.

1.
_______________ book is on the evolution of human beings.
2. Why don’t you share some? _______________ mangoes are delicious!

3. From down here _______________ mountains look very small.
4.
_______________ house belongs to my grandfather.
_______________ dresses are very expensive.
5.
C. Fill in the blanks with suitable possessive determiners using the pronouns given in brackets.
1. Where is _______________ book? (I)

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