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In English, words are grouped into word classes based on the function they perform in a sentence. There are nine main word classes in English; nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, and interjections. This explanation is all about determiners.
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What is a determiner?
A determiner is a word that specifies a noun and gives more information about location, quantity, or ownership. Determiners always come before a noun or a noun phrase.
What is an example of a determiner?
Examples of determiners include articles (a, an, the), demonstrative determiners (this, that, these, those), possessive determiners (my, yours, his), interrogative determiners (what, which, whose), quantifiers (all, many, a few), cardinal numbers (one, two, three), and ordinal numbers (first, second, third).
How do I identify a determiner in a sentence?
Determiners always come before a noun or a noun phrase to give extra information about its location, quantity, or ownership.
What are the six types of determiner?
There are six main types of determiner; these consist of articles, demonstratives, possessive determiners, interrogative determiners, quantifiers, and determiners as numbers.
What is a determiner in a sentence?
In the following sentence;
'The dog didn't like that brand of food.'
The determiners are 'the' and 'that'.
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