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determiner Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 in grammar, a word that is used before a noun to show which particular example of the noun you are referring to:
- In the phrases "my first boyfriend" and "that strange woman", the words "my" and "that" are determiners.
1 a word that is used before a noun to show which particular example of the noun you are referring to:
- In the phrase “my history book” the word “my” is a determiner.

Our English teacher taught us about determiners, which identify which particular noun you're talking about.
When I say 'your diary' or 'this example', the determiners before each noun show which one I mean in particular.
These determiner genitives easily vary with corresponding noun modifiers in contexts where the whole construction is definite and specific.
Yet, in practice, determiner noun modifiers are far more likely to be definite than indefinite.
Here, the telephone is a unique and familiar object (and hence it is marked with the definite determiner), but it is not specific.
The additional material will be referred to here as the determiner-intensifier-adjective (det-int- adj) sequence.
That is, attention was paid to whether a determiner was provided in contexts where it is obligatory.
Table 3 presents both children's overall production of determiners (including target-like, non-target-like and filler determiners), showing number and percent use in obligatory contexts.

0 Determiners and types of noun

We cannot use all the determiners with all types of noun. We can use some determiners with any type of noun, but others must be followed by certain types of noun.
1 Determiners and singular countable nouns

Some determiners can only be used with a singular countable noun. These are:
2 Determiners and singular uncountable nouns

Much, (a) little, less and least can only be used with a singular uncountable noun:
3 Determiners and singular countable or uncountable nouns

We use this and that with singular countable or uncountable nouns, but not with plural nouns. This refers to something near the speaker; that refers to something further away:
4 Determiners and plural countable nouns

Both, many, (a) few, the numbers two, three, four, etc., several, these and those are only used with plural nouns: