PDLyE II – UNIT 5 – HANDOUT #1

VOCABULARY
Watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDai8VK8EHA
Use the vocabulary from the Law & Order handout and retell the trial briefly.

READING COMPREHENSION
See Law & Order

GRAMMAR
Nouns & Determiners
1) How can you classify nouns? Give examples.
2) What are nouns used for?
3) What positions in the sentence can they take? Give examples.
4) What words can we use to modify them? Give examples.
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What are determiners?

They are words that relate a noun to a context. They are the first part of a noun group and
come before any of the other words that go with a noun.

Basically, they relate nouns to:

 the speaker/writer and the listener/reader in terms of distance

 the idea of possession
 quantity
 generalization or specification

Look at the following chart:

Singular bottle
furniture Non-count
Plural bottles
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Mark the space in the box that each group of determiners can modify. The box responds to the
model above.

the – possessive adjectives – some, any, no

this – that

a/an – every, each – either, neither – one

no determiner – some, enough, any, most, more

these, those – many, several, few, all – numbers – both

much, little, a little, less

See Grammar dimensions UNIT 19.