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    The document defines and compares determiners and articles. It states that determiners introduce nouns and include articles, possessive nouns/pronouns, numbers, and indefinite pronouns. Articles are a type of determiner that signal whether a noun is specific or indefinite. The definite article "the" is used for specific nouns while indefinite articles "a" and "an" are used for non-specific nouns. It provides examples of how to use definite and indefinite articles correctly based on the first sound of the following noun.

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    Articles and Determiners

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    The document defines and compares determiners and articles. It states that determiners introduce nouns and include articles, possessive nouns/pronouns, numbers, and indefinite pronouns. Articles are a type of determiner that signal whether a noun is specific or indefinite. The definite article "the" is used for specific nouns while indefinite articles "a" and "an" are used for non-specific nouns. It provides examples of how to use definite and indefinite articles correctly based on the first sound of the following noun.

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    DETERMINER S AND ARTICLES

    MEANING
    DETERMINERS ARTICLES

    A word or a group of words that introduces a noun

    An individual thing or element of a class, a particular object or an item

    TYPES OF DETERMINERS AND ARTICLES


    DETERMINERS
    Articles(the hat, a hat, an opera) Posessive nouns/pronouns(Marys hat, her hat) Numbers (five hats, eight hats, twenty hats) Indefinite pronouns (each hat ,some hats, both hats)

    ARTICLES
    Definite Articles (the)-it is use before singular or plural nouns when the nouns is specific or particular Indefinite Articles (a/an)-it has 'a' and 'an' signal that the nouns modified is indefinite, referring to any member of a group

    Demonstrative pronouns (that hat, those hats)

    HOW TO USE ARTICLES?


    Definite Articles
    Before seas, rivers and group of mountains or islands.

    Indefinite Articles
    Remember, using a or an depends on the sound that begins the next word: A+ singular nouns beginning with consonant. An+ singular nouns beginning with vowels. A+ singular nouns beginning with a consonant sound.

    There is only one of these people or things such as the king, the UN, the sun or the Petronas twin tower.
    With superlatives.

    An+ nouns starting with a silent h.

    HOW TO USE DETERMINERS?


    Determiners signal (determine) that a noun will follow.. Their "meaning" is their function: to signal that a noun will follow. The following examples illustrate the difference: Determiner + noun tea

    Adjective + noun tea

    Note that each adjective has a distinct meaning. In addition, each adjective may add its comparative (-er) and superlative (-est) form

    EXAMPLES OF ARTICLES
    Definite Articles(the) - I just saw the most popular movie of the year.

    Indefinite Articles(a/an) - Somebody get a doctor here!


    - When I was at the zoo, I saw an elephant.

    EXAMPLES OF DETERMINERS
    Articles
    The cat slept with him/ I saw a bird flying/ an electric eel just stung me!!

    Possesive nouns/ pronouns


    Hey! Thats Ahmads wallet. It belongs to him.

    Numbers
    I have five cats in my house.

    Indefinite pronoun
    Do you want some noodles?/ both hats belongs to me.

    Demonstrative pronoun
    That boy just hit me!/ those people are brave./ this kid is actually my uncle.

    THE END

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