DETERMINERS

Possessive
Articles
adjectives
(a, an, the)
(his, her, my…)

DETERMINERS

Demonstrative Quantifiers
adjectives (all, many,
(this, these…) both…)
 1. ARTICLES
A / AN
1. Something we mention at the 1st time
Ex: I’ve got a cat and a dog.
2. Somebody’s job
Ex: My mom is a teacher.
3. What something is or what it is like
Ex: What’s that? – It’s a mobile phone.
4. When we mean ‘any example of
something’
Ex: We need to find a bank.
5. To mean ‘per’ or ‘each’
Ex: I sleep 8 hours a day.
THE
1. Something we’ve already mentioned
Ex: I’ve a cat and a dog. The dog is called Buster.
2. Something is the only one
Ex: How can we protect the earth?
3. With most nationality words
Ex: The Italian often have green eyes.
4. With the names of rivers, mountain ranges,
deserts and seas
Ex: the Amazon, the Mediterranean
5. With a few countries & most groups of islands
Ex: the United Kingdom, the United States
6. With an adjective to refer to everybody who
has that characteristic
Ex: the poor, the rich
7. In various set phrases
Ex: go to the cinema
8. With an instrument
Ex: the piano, the violin
 DON’T USE ARTICLES
1. When we are making generalizations
Ex: Cats can’t ride bicycles.

2. With most countries, continents, towns, lakes and mountains

Ex: I live in Germany.
My cousin has just climbed Mount Everest.

3. With some nouns (often following a preposition)

Ex: watch TV, go to work, go home

4. With meals
Ex: have lunch, have dinner
2. QUANTIFIERS
a. SOME

 Affirmative sentence
Ex: We’ve got some coffee and biscuits.

 Offer
Ex: Would you like some tea?
b. ANY

 Negative sentences and questions

Ex: We haven’t got any coffee.
Have we got any coffee?

 In affirmative sentences where the meaning is negative

Ex: I came out without any money.

 In affirmative sentences to mean ‘it doesn’t matter which’

Ex:Any friend of yours is a friend of mine.
c. NO

 (meaning NOT ANY) when we want to be emphatic

Ex:There’s no cheese in the fridge.
d. A FEW / FEW + countable nouns
A LITTLE / LITTLE + uncountable nouns

 NONE < a few / a little < SOME

Ex:I’ve got a little money. I’m going to the cinema.
I’ve got a few friends. We meet every day.

 few / little: not many / not much / almost none

Ex:I’ve got little money. I need to borrow some.
I’ve got few friends. I need to make new friends.
e. (THE) WHOLE+ singular countable nouns
ALL + uncountable nouns /
plural nouns

Ex:We decorated the whole house.

We decorated all the rooms in the house.
f. BOTH, EITHER, NEITHER
 To talk about 2 things
Ex:Both shops are cheap.
Neither shop is expensive.
You can buy milk at either shop.
g. Some quantifiers can be followed by OF
MOST OF THE…..
A FEW OF MY…..
SEVERAL OF THESE…..
ALL OF US
EACH OF
MANY OF

Ex:All of the students are in the classroom.

h. MANY + plural countable nouns
MUCH + uncountable nouns

Ex:Many people are standing there.

We don’t have much money.
NOTE
 NOT: no of, every of
 INSTEAD: none of, every one of

Ex:Every one of us should help.

None of the shops is open.