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What is a determiner?

 

Determiners are words that informs us whether the item we are talking about is specific or just in general.

 

Examples of using specific determiners:

 

This is MY ice cream!!

This is HER cat.

THOSE are HIS shoes.

 

Specific determiners: the, my, your, his, her, its, our, their, whose , this, that, these, those, which.

 

Specific determiners are used when we are discussing a particular person or a thing.

 

Examples of using general determiners:

 

I would like AN apple.

I want to buy A magazine.

I like ANY fruit but orange.

 

General determiners are used when we are NOT talking specifically about a person or an object, but when we talk about them as a category.

 

General determiners: a, an, any, another, other, what.