determiner - AshokBhat/grammar GitHub Wiki
- A word or a group of words that introduces a noun.
- A determiner specifies a noun as known or unknown
- Goes before any modifiers (e.g. adjectives or other nouns)
| Determiner | Word |
|---|---|
| Article | the, a, an |
| Demonstrative | this, that, these, those |
| Quantifier | a few, a little, much, many, a lot of, most, some, any, enough |
| Numbers | one, two, ... |
| Distributive determiners | each, any |
| Interrogative determiners | which |
| Possessive determiners | my, your, his, her, its, our, their |
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Thehome team - article, specifies the team as known -
Agood team - article, specifies the team as unknown -
thatpupil - demonstrative, known -
Julia’sparents - possessive, known -
Somebig boys - quantifier, unknown