{"id":73812,"date":"2020-04-06T06:29:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73812"},"modified":"2020-04-06T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:29:53","slug":"determiners-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/determiners-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Determiners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Determiners\u00a0<\/b>are words like\u00a0<b>a, my, <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/demonstrative-adjectives\/\">this, those<\/a>,\u00a0each,\u00a0either, some, few,\u00a0all\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>both.<\/b>\u00a0They come at the beginning of noun\u00a0phrases, but they are not\u00a0adjectives.<\/p>\n<p><b>a<\/b>\u00a0new book<br \/>\n<b>every\u00a0<\/b>week<br \/>\n<b>some\u00a0<\/b>rice<br \/>\n<b>enough\u00a0<\/b>trouble<br \/>\n<b>my\u00a0<\/b>mother<\/p>\n<p>English grammar recognises two main groups of determiners \u2013 Group A and Group B.<\/p>\n<h3>Group A determiners<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/using-articles\/\">Articles<\/a>, demonstratives and\u00a0possessives\u00a0are often called\u00a0<b>Group A determiners.\u00a0<\/b>They help to identify things.<\/p>\n<p>Articles &#8211; a, an, the<br \/>\nDemonstratives &#8211; this, that, these, those<br \/>\nPossessives &#8211; my, our, your, their, her, his, its, one\u2019s, whose<\/p>\n<p>Two Group A determiners cannot be put together. We can say\u00a0<b>my car, this car\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>the car,\u00a0<\/b>but not\u00a0<b>the my car, this my car\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>my this car.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If we have to put two Group A determiners together, we use the structure\u00a0<b>a\/this + noun + of mine\/yours.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>this\u00a0<\/b>car\u00a0<b>of mine<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>a\u00a0<\/b>friend\u00a0<b>of yours<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Group B Determiners<\/h3>\n<p>Most of them indicate something about quantity.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/some-vs-any\/\">some, any, no<\/a><\/li>\n<li>each, every, either, neither<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/much-many-more-most\/\">much, many, more, most<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/little-vs-a-little\/\">a little, less, least<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/few-vs-a-few-vs-the-few-determiners-worksheet-for-classes-9-and-10\/\">a few, fewer, fewest<\/a><\/li>\n<li>all, both, half<\/li>\n<li>what, whatever, which, whichever<\/li>\n<li>one, two, three etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can put two Group B determiners together, if the combination makes sense.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We meet\u00a0<b>every few days.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Have you got\u00a0<b>any more rice?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Group B + Group A<\/h3>\n<p>Group B determiners can be used directly before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/nouns\/\">nouns<\/a>\u00a0without\u00a0<b>of.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have they got\u00a0<b>any children?<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Most people\u00a0<\/b>love children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But if we want to put a Group B determiner before a noun with a Group A determiner, we have to use\u00a0<b>of.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>some children<\/li>\n<li>some\u00a0<b>of the<\/b>\u00a0children<\/li>\n<li>neither method<\/li>\n<li>neither\u00a0<b>of these\u00a0<\/b>methods<\/li>\n<li>most plants<\/li>\n<li>most\u00a0<b>of the\u00a0<\/b>plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Points to be noted<\/h3>\n<p>We can leave out\u00a0<b>of\u00a0<\/b>after\u00a0<b>all, both\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>half\u00a0<\/b>when they are followed by nouns.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all my friends\u00a0<b>OR\u00a0<\/b>all of my friends<\/li>\n<li>both (of) my parents<\/li>\n<li>half (of) her income<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But note that we cannot leave out\u00a0<b>of\u00a0<\/b>when\u00a0<b>all, both\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>half\u00a0<\/b>are followed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/pronouns\/\">pronouns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all of us (NOT all us)<\/li>\n<li>both of them (NOT both them)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>No\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>every\u00a0<\/b>are not used before\u00a0<b>of<\/b>; instead we use\u00a0<b>none\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>every one.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no children<\/li>\n<li>none of the children<\/li>\n<li>every child<\/li>\n<li>every one of the children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Group A + Group B<\/h3>\n<p>Certain Group B determiners can be used after Group A determiners. They are:\u00a0many,\u00a0most,\u00a0least,\u00a0little\u00a0and few.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>a little\u00a0<\/b>time<\/li>\n<li><b>his many\u00a0<\/b>ideas<\/li>\n<li><b>a few\u00a0<\/b>questions<\/li>\n<li><b>the most\u00a0<\/b>money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determiners\u00a0are words like\u00a0a, my, this, those,\u00a0each,\u00a0either, some, few,\u00a0all\u00a0and\u00a0both.\u00a0They come at the beginning of noun\u00a0phrases, but they are not\u00a0adjectives. a\u00a0new book every\u00a0week some\u00a0rice enough\u00a0trouble my\u00a0mother English grammar recognises two main groups of determiners \u2013 Group&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[811,810,2533],"class_list":["post-73812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-determiner","tag-determiners","tag-what-are-determiners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73813,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73812\/revisions\/73813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}