Chapter 8

Articles and Determiners

Using a, an, the and determiners like some, any, much and many.

Articles

  • a/an – one general thing; the – a specific thing.

Determiners

  • some – positive; any – questions/negatives.
  • much – uncountable; many – countable.
  • a few (countable) / a little (uncountable).

Key idea

Determiners quantify nouns: some/any, much/many, a few/a little; match them to countable or uncountable nouns.

Remember

Use 'many' and 'a few' with countable nouns; 'much' and 'a little' with uncountable.

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