Fun Easy English - American English Grammar Determiner.

Learning objectives

In this lesson you will learn the definition of a determiner and study examples of determiners.

Definition of a determiner

A determiner:
consists of subsets of the parts of speech
is a word or a phrase that typically precedes a noun and offers grammatical information about the noun
can also be an article
can also be a quantifier that quantifies nouns (many, several, few, some, all, etc.)
can also be a demonstrative pronoun (this, that, these, those)
can also be a personal possessive pronoun that modifies a noun ("my book")

Examples of determiners

used with countable nouns
a couple of, a few, a great many, a large number of, a small number of, both, each, every, few, many, not many, quite a few, several, one, two (etc.)
used with non-countable nouns
a lot, a great deal of, a large amount of, an large amount of, a little, much, not much, little, quite a little
used with countable nouns or non-countable nouns
all, a lot of, lots of, any, enough, hardly any, most, no, none of, not any, plenty of, some

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