English Grammar – Determiners: Full Notes, Examples & Practice Questions

determiners English Grammar

What We Will Learn ?

  1. 🔹 What are Determiners?
  2. 🔹 Types of Determiners in English Grammar
  3. 🔹 Key Rules of Determiners
  4. 🔹 Examples of Determiners (with Hindi Translation)
  5. 🔹 Common Mistakes with Determiners
  6. 🔹 Practice Questions on Determiners
  7. 🔹 Why Determiners are Important for Students?
  8. Don’t Stop Keep Learning

🔹 What are Determiners?

  • Determiners are words placed before nouns to clarify which noun, how many, or whose.
  • They modify nouns but do not describe them (adjectives describe, determiners specify).
  • Without determiners, sentences may sound incomplete or unclear.

👉 Definition (Simple):
Determiners are words that introduce a noun and give more information about it.


🔹 Types of Determiners in English Grammar

  1. Articles – a, an, the
    • Example: A book, an apple, the sun
  2. Demonstratives – this, that, these, those
    • Example: This car, those students
  3. Possessives – my, your, his, her, its, our, their
    • Example: My house, her pen
  4. Quantifiers – some, many, few, several, much, little
    • Example: Many people, some rice
  5. Numbers – one, two, first, second
    • Example: Two books, first prize
  6. Distributives – each, every, either, neither
    • Example: Each child, every day
  7. Interrogatives – which, what, whose
    • Example: Which book?, Whose bag?

🔹 Key Rules of Determiners

  • A determiner always comes before a noun.
  • One noun cannot take two determiners together (❌ the my book).
  • Determiners are different from adjectives → Adjectives describe quality, determiners point out or specify.
  • Every singular countable noun needs a determiner.
    • A boy is playing.
    • Boy is playing.

🔹 Examples of Determiners (with Hindi Translation)

  1. This book is very interesting.
    👉 यह किताब बहुत रोचक है।
  2. My friends are waiting for me.
    👉 मेरे दोस्त मेरा इंतज़ार कर रहे हैं।
  3. I bought two apples from the market.
    👉 मैंने बाज़ार से दो सेब खरीदे।
  4. Each student must submit the homework.
    👉 प्रत्येक विद्यार्थी को गृहकार्य जमा करना चाहिए।
  5. Do you know whose pen this is?
    👉 क्या तुम्हें पता है यह किसका पेन है?

🔹 Common Mistakes with Determiners

  • She is teacher. → ✅ She is a teacher.
  • I have much friends. → ✅ I have many friends.
  • Every students are present. → ✅ Every student is present.

🔹 Practice Questions on Determiners

Fill in the blanks with correct determiners:

  1. I saw ____ (a / an / the) elephant in the forest.
  2. ____ (Each / Every) student must bring their ID card.
  3. He has ____ (many / much) books in his room.
  4. Do you know ____ (whose / which) bag is lying here?
  5. There are ____ (few / little) chairs in the hall.

🔹 Why Determiners are Important for Students?

  • Help in sentence clarity.
  • Essential for English grammar exams (CBSE, ICSE, State Boards, SSC, Banking, IELTS, TOEFL, etc.).
  • Improve spoken English by making sentences correct and natural.

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