DETERMINERS AND QUAnTIFIERS

Boost your English grammar! Practice determiners and quantifiers like much, many, few, little, either, neither, and both.

What are determiners? Determiners are used to identify things in further detail. To take the dictionary definition, they are modifying words that determine the kind of reference a noun or noun group has.Determiners are different to pronouns in that a determiner is always followed by a noun. Personal pronouns ( I , you , he , etc.) and possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, etc.) don't act as determiners.They are used in front of nouns to indicate whether you are referring to something specific or something of a particular type.The definite and indefinite articles a are all determiners.You use a specific determiner when people know exactly which thing(s) or person you are talking about. SORT THESE DETERMINERS OUT ARTICLES a an the DEMONSTRATIVES this that these those POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES my your his GENERAL QUANTIFIERS a few either little many neither I. In the following sentences, fill in the gaps with one of the following quantifiers: much, many, few, little (don't use capital letters) a. It seems to me that we've had many assignments in English this term, we are too tired.b. How much material can we be expected to read in one week?c. many books are not in the library so you need to buy them.d. Our yard looks awful this summer. There are too many weeds.e. Also, I've paid attention to how much rain we've had.f. I'm afraid it's rained few times this summer, and the grass is turning brown and dying.g. few of my neighbors ignore their grass, and they have better lawns this year.h. You can get a nice present withlittle money if you know where to buy it. MATCH THESE SENTENCES WITH THE RIGHT QUATIFIER I'm having _ of trouble passing my driving exam a lot _ the movies were rated PG several of _ information proved to be outdated a lot of We're close to the project deadline, but there is still _ time left enough Although the lawn is open to the sun, there are _ of shade trees to make it comfortable. plenty FILL IN THE GAPS WITH EITHER, NEITHER OR BOTH. DO NOT USE CAPITAL LETTERS I like both normal paella and seafood paella.I like neither Ana nor Sergio. They're both obsessed with money and snobbish.What a disaster. I failed both my two tests.both streets go to the same station. You can take either this one or the other one.Michael Jackson or Madonna? I don't like either of them.Tom wasn't in class today. neitherwas Caroline. Hmmm Choose the best option A, B or C1. He is an expert on languages, but he knows ------------ about maths. few little several 2. I don't think there will be a severe shortage of usable water because there was ---- rain fall yesterday. few a little a lot of 3. Unfortunately, I have ---- talent for music although I have always wanted to be a famous Singer. little few a little 4. There were ---- people at the meeting earlier but most of them left early so there aren't many left now. few much several Sort these determiners out + single countable noun every each +uncountable noun a little a bit a great deal of + plural countable noun a few many most +plural countable / uncountable noun plenty of no some