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Last day we covered lesson # 9 of Impact Grammar.

The lesson was about DETERMINERS WITH NOUNS.

HOMEWORK:

-Trying it your good friend is coming to dinner. Plan a meal that you would like to cook for your friend. Be sure to use determiners:SOME, A LITTLE, A FEW, SEVERAL...............ETC.

DETERMINERS WITH NOUNS

Nouns are often preceded by the words the, a, or an. These words are called DETERMINERS. They indicate the kind of reference which the noun has. The determiner the is known as the DEFINITE ARTICLE. It is used before both singular and plural nouns:
Singular-S
Plural-P
the taxi-S
the taxis-P
the paper-S
the papers-P
the apple-S
the apples-P

The determiner a (or an, when the following noun begins with a vowel) is the INDEFINITE ARTICLE. It is used when the noun is singular:

a taxi a paper an appleThe articles the and a/an are the most common determiners, but there are many others:

any taxi that question those apples this paper some apple whatever taxi whichever taxiMany determiners express quantity:

all examples both parents many people each person every night several computers few excuses enough water no escapePerhaps the most common way to express quantity is to use a numeral. We look at numerals as determiners in the next section.

Numerals and DeterminersNumerals are determiners when they appear before a noun. In this position, cardinal numerals express quantity:

one book two books twenty booksIn the same position, ordinal numerals express sequence:
first impressions second chance third prizeThe subclass of ordinals includes a set of words which are not directly related to numbers (as first is related to one, second is related to two, etc). These are called general ordinals, and they include last, latter, next, previous, and subsequent. These words also function as determiners:

next week last orders previous engagement subsequent developments When they do not come before a noun, as we've already seen, numerals are a subclass of nouns. And like nouns, they can take determiners:

the two of us the first of manyThey can even have numerals as determiners before them:
five twos are tenIn this example, twos is a plural noun and it has the determiner five before it.

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