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Choose the Appropriate Option from the Box to Complete the Given Sentence.

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Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

I spent _______[ the little / a little ] money I had.

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Solution

I spent the little money I had.

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Determiners
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Chapter 1: Determiners - Exercise D [Page 10]

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CBSE English Workbook Class 10
Chapter 1 Determiners
Exercise D | Q 4.14 | Page 10

RELATED QUESTIONS

In this unit you will use the words which help to identify things – to say whether they are known or unknown to the listener, which one(s) the speaker is talking about, whether the speaker is thinking of specific examples or talking in general. You will also work with words which say ‘how much’ or ‘how many’.

There are twenty determiners in the grid given below. Encircle these determiners.


Articles

 1. The building that I visited today is a museum.
2. A building in which antiques are kept is called a museum.

         The word used before building in ....
         Sentence 1 is .......... and in
         Sentence 2 is ...............
• Can you think of a reason why different words are used before building in these two sentences? (Clue: Remember what you read in Class IX about 'specific and non-specific items.')

Working in pair, decide which of the following items in italics is definite (or specific) and which is indefinite (or non-specific).
Then complete the following sentence using appropriate articles.

  • Many countries rely on ___ type of cocoa produced in Ghana for their chocolate products.

Determiners with countable and uncountable nouns

Add a suitable noun to each of the following determiners in the box below.

a............                both.............         few.................      much..............
all...............            each............           little ............       neither................
an..............             either..............       many ...............    no.............
another...............    enough ..............   more ..............     any ..............
every...........            most...........          several...............  one..............
some.............           two(etc)..............    a lot of .............

Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

1 have been to ______ [a/ the ] doctor, whose name appeared in the New York Times.


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

l had left _____I [ the/ my] green shirt on the bed, but l can't find it now.


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

Is there ____1 [ the/ a ] fitness centre near your house ?


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

________[ one/ few/ an ] example helps understand concepts better.


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

________[ India/ lndia's] cultural diversity attracts tourists from all over the world. 


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

That house at the comer of the street belongs to _____ [ many / those ] people who are standing near its gate.


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

He has hardly read__ [ many/ any ] book.  


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

He drove with ______Care [ much / little ] care and hence was fined by the Traffic Police .


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentences.

_________[ any / each ]student of this class is a scholar badge holder.


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given Sentence.

My _________[another/ other ] sister is taller than me .


From the following sentence, underline the Nouns and encircle their Determiners that specify the nouns in a noun phrase.

(articles/possessive pronouns/demonstratives or quantifiers)

These three books articulate his search for science’s Holy Grail.


Determiners are words that modify a noun or noun phrase and occur before them in a sentence. Determiners provide a context to the noun they precede.
They may be:

  • Articles - a, an, the
  • Demonstratives - this, that, these, those, which etc.
  • Possessives - my, your, our, their, his, her etc. my friend’s, her mother’s etc.
  • Quantifiers - few, many, much, more, every, each, some etc.
  • Numerals - one, four, hundred, first, fourth, hundredth

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