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    Articles, determiners, and quantifiers are words that precede and modify nouns. They can indicate whether a noun refers to a specific or general thing, and how much or how many of the noun is being referred to. There are different types of determiners including articles, possessives, numbers, indefinite pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and quantifiers. Quantifiers tell how many or how much of a noun and the correct choice depends on whether the noun is countable or uncountable. Predeterminers occur before other determiners and include multipliers like double or half, as well as intensifiers.

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    Articles, determiners, and quantifiers are words that precede and modify nouns. They can indicate whether a noun refers to a specific or general thing, and how much or how many of the noun is being referred to. There are different types of determiners including articles, possessives, numbers, indefinite pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and quantifiers. Quantifiers tell how many or how much of a noun and the correct choice depends on whether the noun is countable or uncountable. Predeterminers occur before other determiners and include multipliers like double or half, as well as intensifiers.

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    Articles Determiners Quantifiers

    Definition Articles, determiners, and quantifiers are those little words that precede and modify nouns: the teacher, a college, a bit of honey, that person, those people, whatever purpose, either way, your choice

    Sometimes these words will tell the reader or listener whether we're referring to a specific or general thing (the garage out back; A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!);

    sometimes they tell how much or how many (lots of trees, several books, a great deal of confusion).

    These categories of determiners are as follows: the articles (an, a, the ,x) possessive nouns (Joe's, the priest's, my mother's) possessive pronouns (his, your, their, whose, etc.) numbers (one, two, etc.) indefinite pronouns (few, more, each, every, either, all, both, some, any, etc.) demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those, such)

    Quantifiers
    Like articles, 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 and Uncountable Nouns. For our purposes, we will choose the count noun trees and the non-count noun dancing:

    The following quantifiers will work with countable nouns:


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

    The following quantifiers will work with uncountable 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 countable and uncountable 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). a few friends/ few friends a little sugar/little sugar

    An indefinite article is sometimes used in conjunction with the quantifier many, thus joining a plural quantifier with a singular noun (which then takes a singular verb): Many a young man has fallen in love with her golden hair. Many an apple has fallen by October. This construction lends itself to a somewhat literary effect (some would say a stuffy or archaic effect) and is best used sparingly, if at all.

    I. In the following sentences, fill in the gaps with one of the following quantifiers: much, many a. It seems to me that we've had assignments 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 had .. headaches already because of stress. e. depression can be attributed to being overworked.

    II 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. ... of my neighbors ignore their grass, and they have better lawns this year. h advice you get from experts doesn't seem to help.

    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.

    A FEW | A GREAT DEAL | A LITTLE | A LOT | A LOT OF | A MAJORITY OF | ENOUGH | MANY | MUCH OF | PLENTY | SEVERAL OF | SOME
    1. I'm having of trouble passing my driving exam. 2. ..the movies were rated PG. 3. information proved to be outdated. 4. We're close to the project deadline, but there is still .. time left. 5. Although there are brilliant students in this state -thousands, even, only will choose to remain in the state after graduation. 6. We were able to destroy .. the parasites with our antigen, but of them survived to cause trouble. 7. . a student has passed through these doors. 8. Although of the lawn is open to the sun, there are . of shade trees to make it comfortable. 9. I think he drank wine last night. 10. the evidence was taken from the police safe last night.

    Predeterminers
    The predeterminers occur prior to other determiners . This class of words includes multipliers (double, twice, four/five times ) fractional expressions (one-third, threequarters, etc.) the words both, half, and all intensifiers such as quite, rather, and such.

    The multipliers precede plural count and mass nouns and occur with singular count nouns denoting number or amount:

    This van holds three times the passengers as that sports car. My wife is making double my / twice my salary. This time we added five times the amount of water.

    In fractional expressions, we have a similar construction, but here it can be replaced with "of" construction.

    Charlie finished in one-fourth [of] the time his brother took. Two-fifths of the respondents reported that half the medication was sufficient.

    The intensifiers occur in this construction primarily in casual speech and writing and are more common in British English. The intensifier "what" is often found in stylistic fragments: "We visited my brother in his dorm room. What a mess!" This room is rather a mess, isn't it? The ticket-holders made quite a fuss when they couldn't get in. What an idiot he turned out to be. Our vacation was such a grand experience.

    Half, both, and all can occur with singular and plural countable nouns; half and all can occur with mass nouns. There are also "of constructions" with these words ("all [of] the grain," "half [of] his salary"); the "of construction" is required with personal pronouns ("both of them," "all of it").

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