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Samacheer Kalvi 12th English Grammar Determiners

 


Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 12th English Grammar Determiners

Study the sentences given below:

  • I saw a juggler yesterday.

  • My uncle is an officer in the army.

  • This car is very comfortable.

  • Some pictures are really fine.

  • Do you have any complaints about me?

  • She is blind of one eye.

In the above sentences, a, an, the, this, my, some, any and one are words which mark the subsequent arrival of a noun. Each of them modifies the noun which follows it. Such words are called Determiners or Fixing words as they fix the nouns that follow them.

Here is a tentative list of the most frequently used Determiners:
(a) a, an, the – (Article Determiners)
(b) this, that, these, those – (Demonstrative Determiners)
(c) my, our, your, his, her, its, their, one’s – (Possessive Determiners)
(d) one, two, three, etc. – (Definite Numerical Determiners)
(e) some, any, no; all, both; much, many; few, less, several, little – (Indefinite Numeral Determiners)
(i) each, every, either, neither – (Distributive Numeral Determiners)

Use Of Some Common Determiners

  • A hen laid an egg yesterday.

  • Bring me the purse I gave you.

  • This car is very beautiful.

  • Aditi lives in that house.

  • These books are yours.

  • Get me those mangoes please.

  • My mother is a teacher.

  • Your brother is calling you.

  • Our school has fifty rooms.

  • Their house is double-storeyed.

  • Five boys are sitting on that bench.

  • He stays on the first floor.

  • There isn’t any sugar in the pot.

  • Will you have some tea?

  • She gave me all the apples.

  • Both the friends refused to part.

  • He has not solved many sums.

  • There are few buses running.

  • He had little money.

  • I play hockey every day.

  • Either book will do.

  • Neither statement is true.

Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners.

Question 1.
We have ……………. kilometers to go but there is only a ……………. petrol left in the tank!
Answer:
some, any

Question 2.
There isn’t ……………. time; we’ve only ……………. minutes left before the movie starts.
Answer:
much, a few

Question 3.
I took ……………. apple from ……………. refrigerator and ate it.
Answer:
an, the

Question 4.
Quite ……………. trees were blown down by the storm last night ……………. workers were trying to clear them off the road this morning.
Answer:
a few, Many

Question 5.
How ……………. rice is there in the pot? We need only ……………. to feed the cat.
Answer:
much, a little

Question 6.
Don’t add ……………. salt. I have already put in ……………. and the soup is just right.
Answer:
any, enough

Question 7.
……………. goats have wandered into the garden and damaged ……………. plants.
Answer:
Several, the

Question 8.
A man may have ……………. wealth and yet not be ……………. happier with it
Answer:
some, any

Question 9.
On Sundays, there is not ……………. traffic along this road.
Answer:
much

Question 10.
I tried to phone her two or three times, but ……………. time there was no reply
Answer:
each