Determiners

 Determiners are words such as the, my, this, some, twenty, each, any, which are used before nouns:

the countryside	some paper	this old sofa
my father	five green chairs	each person

Determiners include the following common types:

Articles: a/an, the

Demonstratives: this, that, these, those

Possessives: my, your, his, her, its, our, their, x’s (possessive ’s)

Quantifiers: (a) few, fewer, (a) little, many, much, more, most, some, any, etc.

Numbers: one, two, three, etc.

Here is a list of the determiners included in this book. Many of them have individual entries:

(a) few, fewer, fewest	every	most	that
(a) little	half	much	the
(an)other	her	my	their
a/an	his	neither	these
all	its	no	this
any	Jim’s, Anna’s, etc.	one, two, three, etc.	those
both	least	our	what
each	less	several	which
either	many	some	whose
enough	more	such	your

Sometimes we don’t use a determiner before the noun. We call this ‘zero determiner’:

Dogs love biscuits.