Tuesday, October 13, 2009

English Gramar Determiners

Determiners are used in front of nouns to indicate wheter you are referring to something specific or somethin of a partyculer type.

Determiners are differents to pronouns in that a determiner is always followed by a noun. Therefore personal pronouns (his, etc.) canot be determiners.

Te definite and indefininite articles a/an/the are all determiners.

You us specific determiners when people know exactly which thing(s) or person/people you are talking about.

The specific determiners are:
the definite article : the
demonstratives : this, that, these, those
possessives : my, your,his, her, its, our, their

For example:-
"The dog barked at the boy."
"These apples are rotten."
"Their bus was late."

You use determiners to talk about people or things without saying exactly who or what they are.

The general determiners are:
a few , a little, all, another, any, both, each, either, enough, every, few, fewer, less, little, many, more, most, much, neither, no, other, several, some.

For example:-
"A man sat under an umbrella."
"Have you got any English books that I chould have?"
"There is nough food to feed everyone."
Either and Neither

Either and Neither are used in sentences concerning a possible choice between two items.

Either can mean one or the other ( of two) or each of two.
For example:-
I've got tea and coffe, so you can have either.(one or the other)
The room has a door at either end.(both)

Neither means not the first one and not the second one.
For example:-
Neither of the students were listening.

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