Determiners

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What is determiner?

• Determiner is used to identify things in further details.
• It is used to indicate reference to something specific or a particular type.

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Types of Determiners

1. Specific Determiners    
         ~ Used when the people or things you are talking about have already been mentioned.

• The definite article : the 
• Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
• Possessives: my, your, his, her, its, our, their  

Examples:   
The dog barked at the boy.
These apples are rotten.

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2. General Determiners 
          ~ Used when you are mentioning peoples or things for the first time, or talking about                 them generally without saying exactly which ones you mean.

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** Most determiners are also pronouns, except the, a, an, and every.
** Determiners are different to pronouns in that a determiner is always followed by a noun.

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Either and Neither

• Either and neither are used in sentences concerning a possible choice between two items.
• Either can mean one or the other (of two) or each of two.
• Neither means not the first one and not the second one.

Example:
I've got tea and coffee, so you can have either. (One or the other)
The room has a door at either end. (Both)
Neither of the students were listening.