Determiner

****Determiners****

         Determiners are words that are used with nouns to clarify the noun. They can clarify:
***to define something or someone***to state the amount of people, things or other nouns ***to state possessives***to state something or someone is specific***to state how things or people are distributed***to state the difference between nouns***to state someone or something is not specific

      There are different types of determiners. There type of determiner depends on the type of noun. Singular nouns always need a determiner. Plural nouns the determiner is optional. Uncountable nouns the determiner is also optional.
      There are about 50 different determiners in the English language they include:
1. Articles: a, an, the
2.Demonstratives: this, that, these, those, which etc.
3.Possessives: my, your, our, their, his, hers, whose, my friend's, our friends', etc.
4.Quantifiers:few, a few, many, much, each, every, some, any etc.
5.Numbers: one, two, three, twenty, forty
6.Ordinals: first, second, 1st 2nd, 3rd, last, next, etc.         
Source: http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/Determiners/What_Are_Determiners.htm