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Determiners: articles and possessive pronouns review

I can understand when to use an article and when to use a possessive pronoun in sentence context.

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Determiners: articles and possessive pronouns review

I can understand when to use an article and when to use a possessive pronoun in sentence context.

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Key learning points

  1. Determiners are a word class.
  2. A determiner introduces a noun in a clause or phrase.
  3. Determiners can be articles or possessive pronouns.
  4. Articles determine the specificity of a noun whilst possessive pronouns determine the owner of a noun.
  5. A determiner may be followed by an adjective or pair of adjectives then the noun.

Keywords

  • Determiner - a word that introduces a noun in a clause

  • Noun - a naming word for people, places or things

  • Article - a type of determiner that denotes specificity of a noun

  • Possessive pronoun - a type of determiner that denotes possession of a noun by another noun

Common misconception

Pupils may find it difficult to connect the determiner to the noun when adjectives are in between.

Remind pupils that adjectives describe nouns - can they spot the noun the adjectives describe to help them find the determiner?


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Encourage pupils to say sentences aloud - for the most part, they will be able to tell which determiners 'sound right' in sentence context.
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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following is the best definition of a noun?
a naming word for people
a naming word for things
Correct answer: a naming word for people, places and things
a naming word for places
Q2.
Match the word class to its definition.
Correct Answer:noun,a naming word for people, places and things
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a naming word for people, places and things

Correct Answer:adjective,describes a noun - it tells us what it's like
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describes a noun - it tells us what it's like

Correct Answer:verb,a doing, being or having word
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a doing, being or having word

Correct Answer:adverb,describes a verb - it tells us how it's done
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describes a verb - it tells us how it's done

Q3.
Which sentence contains two adjectives?
Mrs Begum's tired face frowned down at us.
Correct answer: Mrs Begum's tired, anxious face frowned down at us.
Mrs Begum's tired face frowned down at us angrily.
Q4.
Which sentence contains an adverb?
We watched the long, dull film.
Correct answer: We watched the long, dull film quietly.
We watched the long, dull film in the sitting room.
Q5.
Match the word classes to the example words.
Correct Answer:noun,balloon
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balloon

Correct Answer:verb,floated
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floated

Correct Answer:adjective,shiny
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shiny

Correct Answer:adverb,gracefully
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gracefully

Q6.
Tick the sentences which have a missing word.
Correct answer: We walked into shop.
The man gave his dog a treat.
We walked into the shop.
Correct answer: The man gave his dog treat.

6 Questions

Q1.
Which word class is introduced by a determiner?
Correct answer: nouns
verbs
adjectives
adverbs
Q2.
What kind of determiners are 'a', 'an' and 'the'?
possessive pronouns
Correct answer: articles
nouns
Q3.
Which of the following words can act as determiners?
low
Correct answer: the
Correct answer: our
as
Q4.
How would using the article 'a' instead of 'the' change the meaning of the sentence 'Take me to the hospital'?
It would suggest that we don't really need to go to the hospital.
Correct answer: It would suggest we don't have a specific hospital in mind.
It would suggest we wanted to go to one particular hospital.
Q5.
Which of the following determiners could fit in this gap? 'I opened __________ door and I gasped in horror.'
an
Correct answer: the
Correct answer: my
Correct answer: your
Q6.
Match the keywords to their definitions.
Correct Answer:determiner,a word that introduces a noun in a clause or phrase
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a word that introduces a noun in a clause or phrase

Correct Answer:possessive pronoun,a type of determiner that helps us show who owns a noun
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a type of determiner that helps us show who owns a noun

Correct Answer:article,a type of determiner that helps us show how specific we are
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a type of determiner that helps us show how specific we are

Correct Answer:noun,a naming word for a person, place or thing
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a naming word for a person, place or thing