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AUXILIARY VERB
NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB
PRONOUN
People, Animals,
Substance (fluid, gas): water, gasoline
Plants, Objects,
Units of measurement
Material: paper, wood, cotton
Practice: Identify the kinds and functions of nouns in the following sentences
Indefinite Q: all, both, some, several, any, no, more, few, less,
QUANTIFIERS many, much, every, each
Partitives: glass of, acre of, slice of,…
DETERMINERS
Central Determiners
Articles (the…)
Demonstratives (this..) mutually exclusive
Possessives (my…)
Interrogative determiners (which, what)
Exclamatory determiners - What a view!
Genitive determiner (John’s…)
Quantifiers (any, every, some)
Post-determiners
Ordinal numerals (first, second…)
Cardinal numerals (one, two,…)
Quantifiers (many, much, several, few, little, less,
least, more, most, other)
Partitives (bottle/jar/glass/loaf …of)
Practice: Which is the correct phrase A, B or both?
ordinal + cardinal
1. I don't know ... people who still use a 9. ... bug is an insect, but not ... insects are bugs.
land-line phone. 10. The committee interviewed ... candidate
2. It's still quite early, so we've had very ... separately.
customers so far. 11. Have you got ... brothers or sisters? Or are you
3. I don't like ... dress. This one's too bright, an only child?
and that one's too short. 12. ... books here in my bag are from the
4. Who's the ... boy, standing next to Kevin? university library.
13. The soup needs ... salt. Not much though, just
5. I would say I have ... friends, but not a lot.
a pinch.
6. ... man over there is my uncle Charlie. 14. This restaurant is awful. Let's go to ... place.
7. ... news is good news. 15. ... her parents were artists, which inspired
8. Not ... of what he said was true. Jane to become a writer herself.