TOEIC Grammar: Determiners & Pronouns

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 cars

any cars

some money

any money

         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

  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.

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