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Determiners

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Determiners

Determiners help identify which noun you are talking about.

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What are determiners?

  • Determiners allow you to know:
    • Whether a noun is already known.
    • Whether a noun is being mentioned for the first time.
    • Whether you are singling out a noun.
  • The most common determiners are ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’.
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The most common determiners

  • The most common determiners are called articles.
  • There are two types of articles:
    • The definite article.
    • The indefinite article.
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Indefinite or definite article

  • When you haven’t introduced a noun before, you use the indefinite article ‘a’ or ‘an’.
    • E.g. there is a bed in the room.
  • If the noun is already known, you use the definite article ‘the’.
    • E.g. look under the bed in the room.
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Using articles

  • The definite or indefinite article is used before a noun.
    • E.g. 'the room'.
    • E.g. 'a room'.
  • The definite or indefinite article can also be used before an adjective:
    • E.g. ‘the big room’.
    • E.g. 'a big room'.

Determiners

Determiners help identify which noun you are talking about.

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Demonstrative determiners

  • Demonstrative determiners tell you where something is.
    • ‘This’ and ‘these’ indicates something is or somethings are close by.
    • ‘That’ and ‘those’ indicates something is or somethings are further away.
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Possessive determiners

  • Possessive determiners tell you who owns something.
    • ‘My’ and ‘your’, ‘his’ and ‘her’, and ‘its’ and ‘their’ tell you who owns a noun.

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1Spelling

1.1Spelling

1.1.1Hard 'U' & 'I' Sounds

1.1.2Words Ending in '-sure', & '-mure'

1.1.3Words Ending in '-sion'

1.1.4'Ei', 'Eigh' & 'Ey' Spellings

1.1.5Spelling Words with 'Ch'

1.1.6Spelling Words with 'Sc'

1.1.7Silent Letters

1.1.8i Before e Rule

1.1.9Hard & Soft 'c' Sounds

1.1.10End of Topic Test - Spelling

1.2Prefixes

1.2.1'Anti-' & 'Auto-'

1.2.2Not & 'Inter-'

1.2.3'Mis-', 'Dis-' & 'Re-'

1.2.4'Sub-' & 'Super-'

1.3Suffixes

1.3.1Vowel Suffixes

1.3.2Short Vowel Suffixes

1.3.3Suffixes: '-ous'

1.3.4Rules for Suffixes: '-ous'

1.3.5Rules for Suffixes: '-ous' 2

1.3.6Suffixes: '-ly'

1.3.7Suffixes: '-ation'

1.3.8Suffixes: '-ation' 2

1.3.9Spelling: '-tion' Endings

1.3.10Spelling: '-sion' Endings

1.3.11Spelling: '-ssion' Endings

1.3.12Spelling: '-cian' Endings

1.3.13End of Topic Test - Prefixes & Suffixes

1.4Making Words Plural

1.4.1Plurals

1.5Homophones

1.5.1Accept & Except

1.5.2Affect & Effect

1.5.3Ball & Bawl

1.5.4Berry & Bury

1.5.5Brake & Break

1.5.6Fair & Fare

1.5.7Grate & Great

1.5.8Groan & Grown

1.5.9Hear & Here

1.5.10Heal, Heel & He'll

1.5.11Knot & Not

1.5.12Mail & Male

1.5.13Main & Mane

1.5.14Meat & Meet

1.5.15Medal & Meddle

1.5.16Missed & Mist

1.5.17Peace & Piece

1.5.18Plain & Plane

1.5.19Rain & Reign & Rein

1.5.20Scene & Seen

1.5.21Weather & Whether

1.5.22Whose & Who's

1.5.23End of Topic Test - Homophones

1.6Word Meanings

1.6.1Homonyms

2Punctuation

2.1Punctuation

2.1.1Full Stops

2.1.2Capital Letters

2.1.3Commas

2.1.4Commas 2

2.1.5Using Apostrophes with Regular Plurals

2.1.6Using Apostrophes with Irregular Plurals

2.1.7Question Marks & Exclamation Marks

2.1.8Brackets

2.1.9Dashes

2.1.10Colon

2.1.11Semi-Colon

2.1.12Direct Speech

2.1.13Indirect Speech

2.1.14Hyphens

2.1.15Ellipses

2.1.16End of Topic Test - Punctuation

2.1.17End of Topic Test - Punctuation 2

2.2Writing Structure

2.2.1Paragraphs

2.2.2Headings & Subheadings

2.2.3Columns

2.2.4Bullets

2.2.5Tables

3Grammar

3.1Word Classes

3.1.1Nouns

3.1.2Pronouns

3.1.3Verbs

3.1.4Adjectives & Adverbs

3.1.5Qualifiers & Quantifiers

3.1.6Determiners

3.1.7Prepositions

3.1.8Synonyms & Antonyms

3.1.9End of Topic Test - Word Classes

3.2Conjunctions

3.2.1Coordinating Conjunctions

3.2.2Subordinating Conjunctions

3.3Writing Coherently

3.3.1Building Cohesion in Writing

3.3.2Avoiding Ambiguity in Writing

3.4Verbs

3.4.1Subject-verb Agreement

3.5Modal Verbs

3.5.1Modal Verbs

3.5.2Can & Could

3.5.3May & Might

3.5.4Should & Shall

3.5.5Will & Would

3.5.6Must & Have To

3.6Phrasal Verbs

3.6.1Phrasal Verbs

3.7Subjunctive Verbs

3.7.1Subjunctive Verbs

3.7.2End of Topic Test - Verbs

3.8Sentences

3.8.1Subject of a Sentence

3.8.2Object of a Sentence

3.8.3Main & Subordinate Clauses

3.8.4Simple Sentences & Compound Sentences

3.8.5Complex Sentences

3.8.6Relative Clauses

3.8.7Relative Clauses Without Relative Pronouns

3.8.8Participle Clauses

3.8.9Run-on Sentences

3.8.10Sentence Functions

3.8.11End of Topic Test - Sentences

3.9Tenses

3.9.1Present Tense

3.9.2Past Tense

3.9.3Past Tense Using Have

3.9.4Future Tense

3.9.5Present vs Past vs Future

3.9.6Continuity of Tenses

3.9.7End of Topic Test - Tenses

3.10Adverbials

3.10.1Adverbial

3.10.2Saying Where & When

3.10.3Saying How Often

3.10.4Saying How & Why

3.10.5Using Commas for Fronted Adverbials

3.11Language Techniques

3.11.1Figurative & Emotive Language

3.11.2Active & Passive Voice

3.11.3Idiomatic Expressions

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Qualifiers & Quantifiers

Prepositions