Determiners

Determiners are words that are used with nouns to clarify the noun. They can clarify:

• to define something or someone
• to state the amount of people, things or other nouns
• to state possessives
• to state something or someone is specific
• to state how things or people are distributed
• to state the difference between nouns
• to state someone or something is not specific

There are different types of determiners. There type of determiner depends on the type of noun. Singular nouns always need a determiner. Plural nouns the determiner is optional. Uncountable nouns the determiner is also optional.

There are about 50 different determiners in the English language they include:

• Articles: a, an, the
• Demonstratives: this, that, these, those, which etc.
• Possessives: my, your, our, their, his, hers, whose, my friend's, our friends', etc.
• Quantifiers:few, a few, many, much, each, every, some, any etc.
• Numbers: one, two, three, twenty, forty
• Ordinals: first, second, 1st 2nd, 3rd, last, next, etc.