determiner

There are five categories of determiners:

  • Articles: a, the 
  • Demonstratives: this, that, etc.
  • Possessive adjectives/possessive determiners: my, our
  • Interrogative adjectives/interrogative determiners: whose, which
  • Quantifiers: some, a few,  several


Numbers: Cardinal (one, two, three) and ordinal (first, second, third) numbers are also used as determiners.


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