Determiners

Determiners are said to "mark" nouns. That is to say, you know a determiner will be followed by a noun.

 Some categories of determiners are limited (there are only three articles, a handful of possessive pronouns, etc.), but the possessive nouns are as limitless as nouns themselves.

 This limited nature of most determiner categories, however, explains why determiners are grouped apart from adjectives even though both serve a modifying function.

Parts of speech:
Noun Pronoun Verb Adverb Adjective Interjection Conjunction Preposition

The categories of determiners are as follows:

the articles possessive nouns possessive pronouns numbers indefinite pronouns and demonstrative pronouns

Quantifiers
Quantifiers are words that precede and modify nouns. They tell us how many or how much. Selecting the correct quantifier depends on your understanding the distinction between

- Countable - Non-countable nouns.

The following quantifiers will work with count nouns:

many trees a few trees few trees several trees a couple of trees none of the trees

The following quantifiers will work with non-count nouns:

not much dancing a little dancing little dancing a bit of dancing a good deal of dancing a great deal of dancing no dancing

The following quantifiers will work with both count and non-count nouns:
all of the trees/dancing some trees/dancing most of the trees/dancing enough trees/dancing a lot of trees/dancing lots of trees/dancing plenty of trees/dancing a lack of trees/dancing

 There is an important difference between "a little" and "little" (used with non-count words) and between "a few" and "few" (used with count words).

I. In the following sentences, fill in the gaps with one of the following quantifiers: a. It seems to me that we've hadassignments in English this term. b. How material can we be expected to read in one week? c. books are not in the library. d. I've hadheadaches already because of stress. e. depression can be attributed to being overworked.

 III. In the following sentences, fill in the gaps with one of the following quantifiers: much, many, few, little, most.

a. Our yard looks awful this summer. There are too weeds. b. I didn't use fertilizer last spring, and that has made a difference. c. Also, I've paid attention to how rain we've had. d. I'm afraid it's rained times this summer, and the grass is turning brown and dying. e. experts say you should fertilize your lawn in the fall. f. It didn't seem to do my lawn good. g. advice you get from experts doesn't seem to help. h. of my neighbors ignore their grass, and they have better lawns this year.

IV. In the following sentences, fill in the gaps with one of the following quantifiers: a little, little, a few, few.
a. They say.. knowledge is a bad thing.

b. I know .. instances where that proves true.

c. .. people know as much about computers as Tomasz does. d. But it does him .. good when the whole system goes down.

 1. How ______ money did they steal ? (A)a little (B)few (C)much (D)many 2. A ______ of elephants destroyed the plants. (A)litter (B)troop (C)pack (D)herd

3. On Sundays there is not ______ traffic along this road. (A)many (B)much (C)few (D)several 4. I gave her a ______ of flowers. (A)bouquet (B)suit (C)forest (D)cluster 5. How ______ books did you buy ? (A)much (B)few (C)many (D)some 6. He has spilt ______ ink on his clothes. 7. A ______ of spectators cheered the players. (C)crew (D)gang (A)many (B)few (C)any (D)a little (A)staff (B)crowd

8. There is too ______ sugar in that drink.

(A)much (B)many (C)few (D)a little

9. It rained heavily. Only ______ children came to school. (A)much (B)many (C)a few (D)a little 10. A flock of ______ crossed the country road. (C)lions (D)wolves (A)cattle (B)sheep