Determiners and pronouns
Point 1 Determiners Definition :
A determiner is a word that is normally used at the beginning of a noun phrase. Determiners include:
- articles. There are two types of articles: – the definite article: the
– the indefinite article: a/an
- possessive adjectives
- demonstrative adjectives
Some and any are usually followed by plural countable nouns and uncountable nouns and are used as follows:
Some is used:
- in affirmative sentences: He’s got some books from the library.
- in offers and requests:Could I have some books, please?
Why don’t you take some books home with you?
Any is used:
- in negatives (not any = no; hardly any; never any): There isn’t any reason to complain.
- in questions: Have they got any children?
- in affirmative sentences, any = “no matter which”, “no matter who”,“no matter what”
You can borrow any of my books.
Their compounds, which are always singular, are:
- someone/somebody, something, somewhere. I have something to say.
- anyone/anybody, anything, anywhere. Does anybody have the time?
You may invite anybody to dinner, I don’t mind. You can invite anyone to dinner.
- no one/nobody, nothing, nowhere. Homeless people have nowhere to go at night.
- (everyone/everybody, everything, everywhere).
- They can be followed by else. There’s nothing else to do.
- What else do you want to watch?
However, you can also use “someone’s car/somebody’s coming” in contraction form to show position or just using the LV “is.”
Also, “else” is one of those words that’s very difficult to understand, simply because there’s not much of a translation into the Thai language. Example, “what else do you want to do?” My students look at me cluelessly because they just can’t wrap their heads around it.