Parts of Speech

Determiners are words that introduce nouns. These are the different types: • Articles: a, an, the • Demonstratives: this, that, these, those • Possessive Adjectives: my, your, her, his, our, its, their, whose • Quantifiers: a little, a few, many, much, a lot of, most, any, some, enough • Numbers: one, five, forty • Distributives: both, all, half, neither, either, every, each • Interrogatives: what, which, whose The grammar rules for determiners are that they: • Always come before a noun • Come before any modifiers (e.g. adjectives) used before the noun • Are required before a singular noun • Are optional before plural nouns

Here are some examples of determiners used with the noun 'house':

Determiners are commonly used as part of noun phrases, which will also include a modifier (an adjective, another noun, a possessive form, or an adverb-adjective combination).

Here are some examples of noun phrases that consist of:

• determiner + modifier + noun