{"id":15692,"date":"2015-03-19T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=15692"},"modified":"2020-12-06T00:03:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T00:03:11","slug":"articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=15692","title":{"rendered":"Determiners &#038; Predeterminers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DETERMINERS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Determiners<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are grammar words which come in front of nouns.<a href=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DETERMINERS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2362\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/whats_next.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/whats_next.jpeg 293w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/whats_next-150x88.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/eslgrammar.org\/determiner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/eslgrammar.org\/determiner\/<\/a>\u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Click<\/strong> icon to open a chart with the correct collocations of such words\u00a0<strong>\u2192<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to the kinds of nouns they go with:\u00a0<strong>countable<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>singular<\/strong>?\u00a0<strong>plural<\/strong>?) or\u00a0<strong>uncountable<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<h6>\u221e \u00a0Quantifiers: \u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0(a) few, (a) little&#8230;<\/h6>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCklrNN80vI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/quizzes\/cross\/quant_gap2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quantifiers: <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/quizzes\/cross\/quant_gap2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fill in the gaps<\/a><strong>\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolearnenglish.com\/exercises\/exercise-english-2\/exercise-english-84900.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Determiners &amp; Distributive Pronouns<\/a>\u2190<\/h5>\n<p><strong>\u25ca \u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Definite [<em>\u00abthe\u00bb<\/em>] &amp; Indefinite articles\u00a0[<em>\u00aba\u00bb \/ \u00aban\u00bb<\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0Quizzes &#8230; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/quizzes\/cross\/articles_quiz.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[01]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0 \/ \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learnenglish.britishcouncil.org\/en\/grammar-exercises\/articles-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[02]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0 \/<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engvid.com\/a-an-the-articles-in-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[03]\u2190<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6><strong>\u25ca \u00a0When to use A, AN, or no article \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engVid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quiz\u2190<\/a>]<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This grammar lesson features one of the most common problems that new English speakers have. There are a couple of very basic grammar rules you can follow to help you know when to use \u00aba,\u00bb \u00aban,\u00bb or no article.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fqrKMIrN8wQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a4\u00a0 The Zero Article \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammaring.com\/the-zero-article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2022\u2192[01]\u2190<\/a> \u00a0 \/ \u00a0\u00a0\u2022<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/learningenglish\/grammar\/learnit\/learnitv198.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192[02]\u2190<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In general, the zero article is used with proper nouns,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.about.com\/od\/mo\/g\/massnounterm.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"5\">mass nouns<\/a><\/strong> where the reference is indefinite, and <strong>plural\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.about.com\/od\/c\/g\/countnounterm.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"6\">count nouns<\/a><\/strong> where the reference is indefinite. Also, the zero article is generally used with means of transport (<em>\u00abby plane\u00bb<\/em>) and common expressions of time and place (<em>\u00abat midnight,\u00bb \u00abin jail\u00bb<\/em>).<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2207 \u00a0 When to use \u00a0\u2193 &#8216;THE&#8217; with places<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/44VGuAmf5TA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eslbase.com\/grammar\/articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.eslbase.com\/grammar\/articles<\/a>\u2190<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a4 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (AN)OTHER \u00a0 \u2193\u00a0 (THE) OTHER(S)<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\/ \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/quizzes\/90.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2192quiz\u2190\u2022<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpENye4Vkp8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uutyTu3mAyY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/other.jpg\" alt=\"other\" width=\"454\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/other.jpg 454w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/other-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/other-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/other-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/learningenglish\/grammarchallenge\/pdfs\/11_sosuch_practice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-55223\" src=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/so_such.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/so_such.jpg 512w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/so_such-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/so_such-150x67.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/so_such-400x177.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a4 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.really-learn-english.com\/pre-determiners.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Predeterminers<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edufind.com\/english\/grammar\/distributives2.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/predeterminers.jpg\" alt=\"predeterminers\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/predeterminers.jpg 160w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/predeterminers-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An adjectival word that can stand <strong>before<\/strong> an article, a possessive, or another determiner, as\u00a0<i>all<\/i>\u00a0in &#8216;<i>all the flowers&#8217;<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>both<\/i>\u00a0in &#8216;<i>both his children.&#8217; \u00a0<\/i>There are not many of such words in English so it won&#8217;t take you long to learn them, but usage might be kind of tricky.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2190<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ef.com\/wwen\/english-resources\/english-grammar\/distributives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">distributives \u2190<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black;\">\u03a6\u00a0 Pre-determiners<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0can be classified into four types:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022 \u00a0multipliers \u00a0&#8230; \u00a0<strong>twice \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>five times \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>ten times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022 \u00a0fractions \u00a0. . . \u00a0<strong>half \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>one-third \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>one-eighth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022 \u00a0intensifiers &#8230;\u00a0<strong>rather \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>such \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>quite \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>what<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022 \u00a0distributives\u00a0 . . . \u00a0<strong style=\"color: #000000;\">all \/\u00a0<\/strong><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">both<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=500&amp;v=3dMZZ0mh_dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predeterminers<\/a><\/b>\u00a0occur prior to other determiners (as you would probably guess from their name). This class of words includes multipliers (<i>double, twice, four\/five times<\/i>\u00a0. . . .); fractional expressions (<i>one-third, three-quarters,<\/i>\u00a0etc.); the words\u00a0<i>both, half,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>all<\/i>; and intensifiers such as\u00a0<i>quite, rather,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>such<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<strong><i>multipliers<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0precede plural count and mass nouns and occur with singular count nouns denoting number or amount:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\n<li>This van holds\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">three times\u00a0<i>the<\/i><\/span>\u00a0passengers as that sports car.<\/li>\n<li>My wife is making\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">double\u00a0<i>my<\/i>\u00a0\/ twice\u00a0<i>my<\/i><\/span>\u00a0salary.<\/li>\n<li>This time we added\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">five times\u00a0<i>the<\/i><\/span>\u00a0amount of water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">In\u00a0<strong><i>fractional expressions<\/i><\/strong>, we have a similar construction, but here it can be replaced with \u00abof\u00bb construction.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Charlie finished in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one-fourth [of] the<\/span>\u00a0time his brother took.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Two-fifths of the<\/span>\u00a0respondents reported that\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">half the<\/span>\u00a0medication was sufficient.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<strong><i>intensifiers<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0occur in this construction primarily in casual speech and writing and are more common in British English than they are in American English. The intensifier \u00abwhat\u00bb is often found in stylistic fragments: \u00ab<em>We visited my brother in his dorm room. What a mess!\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\n<li>This room is\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>rather<\/strong> a<\/span>\u00a0mess, isn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<li>The ticket-holders made\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>quite<\/strong> a<\/span>\u00a0fuss when they couldn&#8217;t get in.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What<\/strong> an<\/span>\u00a0idiot he turned out to be.<\/li>\n<li>Our vacation was\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>such<\/strong> a<\/span>\u00a0grand experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>Half, both,<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><i>all<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong>can occur with singular and plural\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: grey;\" href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/nouns.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>count nouns<\/b><\/a>;\u00a0<strong><i>half<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><i>all<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0can occur with\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: grey;\" href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/nouns.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>mass nouns<\/b><\/a>. There are also <em>\u00ab<strong>of<\/strong> constructions\u00bb<\/em> with these words (\u00aball [of] the grain,\u00bb \u00abhalf [of] his salary\u00bb); the \u00abof construction\u00bb is\u00a0<i>required<\/i> with personal pronouns (\u00abboth of them,\u00bb \u00aball of it\u00bb).<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32699\" src=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/predeterminers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/predeterminers.jpg 160w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/predeterminers-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determiners are grammar words which come in front of nouns.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2192https:\/\/eslgrammar.org\/determiner\/\u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Click icon to open a chart with the correct collocations of such words \u2192<\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to the kinds of nouns they go with: countable (singular? plural?) or uncountable?<\/p>\n<p> \u221e Quantifiers: \u21d3 (a) few, (a) little&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2192Quantifiers: fill in the gaps\u21d0<\/p>\n<p> \u2022\u2192Determiners [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":15693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-15692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar","tag-exercices","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15692"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55227,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692\/revisions\/55227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}