Determiners

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Determiners are used in front of nouns to indicate whether you are referring to something specific or something of a particular type. They give instructions to a reader or listener about how specific nouns should be interpretted.


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Definite articles are words such as the.

  • The dog chased the cat.

Indefinite articles are wors such as a or an.

  • A dog chased a cat.


Demonstratives

Determiners such as that, those, this, and these.

  • That dog chased this cat.


Quantifiers

Determiners such as one, some, all, both, twenty, and several.

  • One dog chased several cats.


Possessive

Determiners such as my, your, his, her, and its.

  • My dog chased its tail.
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