Determiners

Types of Nouns, determiners usually agree with

Note: There are usually four types of noun that determiners always go along with and these are

1.      Some proper nouns (such are the name of people, tribe, city, etc.)

E.g

a)  The Benin empire is close to us 

b)  The Smiths are rich family.

c)   The Igbos love money a lot

2.      Singular count nouns

Noun	Determiner	Noun phrase
Boy         Man Pencil Church  Egg	a /the a/the a/the a/the an/the	a boy a man/the man a pencil/the pencil a/the church an egg/the egg

                                          

3.      Plural count noun

Noun	Determiner	Noun phrase
Egg           Men   Women  Churches   Students	some, many, all, those few, a few, many, some, several, all, some, many, all,  some, many, all,	some/many/all/those egg few/a few/many men some/several/all women some/many/all churches some/many/all students

4.      Uncountable Noun

Noun	Determiner	Noun phrase
Water Advice  Information   Cake  Sand  Salt Furniture	some, little, a little a piece of a piece of a piece of a handful of a little, a pinch  a piece of	some/little/a little water a piece of advice a piece of information a piece of cake a handful of sand a little/a pinch salt a piece of furniture

                                  

Exercise

Use the appropriate determiners with these words:

1.       _____ Paper,

2.      _____ sugar,

3.      _____ land,

4.      ______ umbrella,

5.      ______ horse,

6.      ______ apex,

7.      _____ Cokers,

8.      _______ Americans,

9.      _______ table,

10.  _______ wine 

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1.      A piece of …

2.      A little/little …

3.      A piece of …

4.      An umbrella …

5.      A …

6.      The …

7.      The …

8.      The …

9.      A …

A little/little …