Determiners 9, 11th classes With Answers HBSE and CBSE
Study the
sentences given below:
I saw a loin yesterday.
My uncle is an officer in the army.
This bike is very comfortable.
Some pictures are really fine.
Have you any complaint against me?
He is blind in one eye.
In the above sentences, a, an, the, this, my, some, any, and one are words
which mark the subsequent arrival of a noun. Each of them modifies the noun
which follows it. Such words are called Determiners or Fixing words as they fix
the Nouns that follow them.
Here is a list of the most frequently used Determiners:
(a) a, an, the (Article Determiners)
(b) this, that, these, those (Demonstrative
Determiners)
(c) my, our, your, his, her, its, their, one’s (Possessive
Determiners)
(d) one, two, three, etc. (Definite Numerical Determiners)
(e) some, any, no; all, both; much, many; few, less, several,
little (Indefinite Numeral Determiners)
(f) each, every, either, neither (Distributive
Numeral Determiners)
USE OF SOME COMMON
DETERMINERS
(a) A, An, The [Article
Determiners]
‘A’ and ‘ah’
are used before countable singular nouns. A’ is used before a word beginning
with a consonant sound, while ‘an’ is used before words with a vowel sound as—
A hen laid an egg yesterday.
An elephant killed a man.
She wants to be a car-painter.
I saw a boy reading a book.
It is not a cow. It is an owl.
‘The’ is a weakened form of ‘that’.
‘The’ is used to particularize a person or a thing as—
Call the boy (who is) waiting outside.
The apples in that basket are quite fresh.
Bring me the purse I gave you.
I reached the school late.
The girl who
stood first was given a prize.
(b) This, That, These, Those
[Demonstrative Determiners]
I. That (in
case of plural, those)
(a) It is used to avoid the repetition of the preceding noun(s). e.g.
·
My pen is
better than that of my friend.
·
Our soldiers
are better equipped than those of Pak.
(b) It refers
to person(s) or thing(s) far from the speaker, e.g.
·
Get that dog
out of here.
·
Those houses
are for sale.
II. This (in
case of plural, these)
(a) It refers to persons or thing(s) near the speaker, e.g.
·
This book is
very interesting.
·
These flowers
are very beautiful.
(c) My, Our, Your, His, Her,
Its, Their, One’s [Possessive Determiners]
These are Possessive forms of Pronouns. They are used before Singular and
Plural Nouns to indicate relationship/possession; as—
My mother is a teacher.
Our school has fifty rooms.
Your father is calling you.
His bag contains many objects.
Her books lie scattered in the room.
Their house is double-storeyed.
One must do
one’s duty.
(d) One, Two, Three, etc.
[Definite Numeral Determiners]
These indicate a definite number of objects/persons; as—
The beggar is blind of one eye.
She has two daughters
Five boys are sitting on that bench.
Note. ‘Ordinal numbers’ like ‘first’, ‘second’, “third’, … etc.
refer to the position of something in a series; as—
The girl in the third row is my cousin.
The man in the first room is our warden.
(e) (i) Some, Any and
No [Indefinite Numeral Determiners]
Some is generally used in affirmative sentences.
No, and Any are used in negative and interrogative sentences; as—
There is no
post office in this colony.
I have no friends in our class.
We have invited some T.V. anchors to the show.
There is still some milk in the jug.
There isn’t any sugar in the pot.
Have you any books on western music?
Study the use of some’ and ‘Any’ in the following
contexts: ‘Some’ may be used in questions indicating request or invitation; as—
Will you have some tea?
Will you spend some days with us?
Won’t you spare some time for me?
Didn’t I lend you some money yesterday?
. ‘A little’
and ‘A few’ make a positive sense, A little means some quantity though
not much, while ‘A few’ indicates a certain number, though not many; as—
1.
n other words, ‘Little’ and ‘Few’ mean practically nothing.
‘Little’ is used with singular countable nouns while ‘Few’ is used with plural
countable nouns; as—
There is little water in the pot. (hardly any)
There are few buses running.
I shall return the money in a few days. (= some)
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. (some but not much)
3. ‘The little’ and ‘The few’ imply two statements—One negative
and the other affirmative.
