Determiners and Quantifiers

Determiners and Quantifiers

by Khadija Aljobori

​Determiners

• ​Before a noun

• ​Instead of a noun

• ​Provide more information about the noun

• ​Can be in 10 different types

• ​Example: articles, demonstrations or posessives

• ​Can be general, specific or possessive.

Multiple Choice

Have you checked the ingredients ?   [the] in this sentence is a .................. determiner 

• general 

• specific 

• article 

• possessive 

Open Ended

use the determiner " whose" in a sentence

Multiple Choice

You can add determiners before adjectives as well as nouns 

• False 

• True 

​Quantifiers

​Quantifiers are determiners that give information about how many or how much there is of something.

Examples: all, few, several, much, plenty of, lots of, more, most, enough, no

​1- Followed by -of :

• ​We often use quantifiers in noun phrases followed by ‘of’ and another determiner or a pronoun.

• ​Examples:

• some of his ideas,

• most of these birds,

• many of us

​2- Talking about 2:

When we are talking about two people or things, we can use ‘either (of )’, ‘neither (of )’ or ‘both (of )’​

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• ​Examples:

• either option,

• neither of your suggestions,

• both of them

3- Each & Every

We use ‘each’, ‘every’ and ‘all’ to talk about all the members in a group of things or people. We use singular nouns after ‘each’ and ‘every’ and plural nouns after ‘all’.

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• ​Examples:

• each fish

• every company

• all products

4- classifying phrases

We can also use classifying phrases as a quantifier to the noun

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​Examples:

​Bottle of water

​Slice of cheese

​Bag of crisps

​Remember: Countable and uncountable nouns

• ​We use different quantifiers for countable and uncountable nouns

• ​Countable quantifiers may include: few and many.

• ​Uncountable quantifiers may include: much and little.

Multiple Choice

Jenny has got...............contacts to help her with her business

• a little

• a few

• little

• much

Multiple Choice

Of all the pupils in the class, he has the.............chance of succeeding.

• least

• few

• a few

• less

Multiple Choice

---- of the students use their student IDs to enter the school.

• All

• A little

• Every

• Each

Multiple Choice

Is there __________ vegetable in the fridge?

• some

• any

• many

• a lot

Multiple Choice

There are a ______ eggs in the basket.

• little

• much

• many

• few

Multiple Choice

We have got ........... books.

• Too many

• Too much

Open Ended

use the following quantifiers in a sentence each:

( both of. each )