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ELC121
ELC121
A , an , the
DEMONSTARTIVES
this , that , these , those DISTRIBUTIVE
‘The’
EXAMPLES :
• I saw a lion. The lion was sleeping under a
tree.
• We heard a noise. The noise came from a
neighbour’s house.
‘This’ and ‘that’ are used before singular
countable nouns while ‘these’ and ‘those’
are used before plura countable nouns.
• Some quantifiers express a small or
large quantity
• Some quantifiers express part of or all
of a quantity