Amity International School, Noida SESSION 2022-23 Class Vii-English Worksheet: Determiners

AMITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, NOIDA
SESSION 2022-23
CLASS VII- ENGLISH
WORKSHEET: DETERMINERS
Determiners are a kind of noun modifier; they precede and are necessarily followed by nouns.
The function of determiners is to ‘express reference’; i.e., they clarify what a noun is referring to. For
example, when one says ‘that box’, the listener knows which box is being referred to.
TYPES OF DETERMINERS
1. Articles
2. Demonstrative Determiners
3. Possessive Determiners
4. Quantifiers
5. Interrogatives
 ARTICLES
There are three articles: a, an, and the.
Indefinite Articles
A and an are indefinite articles that serve the same purpose, but they cannot be used interchangeably,
because ‘a’ is only used before words that begin with consonants, and ‘an’ is used only before words
that begin with vowels. (Note: ‘an’ before ‘h’ when it is silent, as in ‘hour’ and ‘honour’; ‘a’ before ‘u’
and ‘eu’ when they sound like ‘you’, as in ‘European’ and ‘university’.
Definite Article
‘The’ is known as the definite article in English. Its uses are as follows:
1. When something is being referred to that has already been mentioned. For example, I saw a
pretty girl at the mall today. The pretty girl did not, however, see me.
2. When both parties involved in the conversation are aware of what is being discussed.
For example: Where is the restroom?
3. To refer to unique objects. For example: the sun, the moon, the Earth, the Taj Mahal.
4. With superlatives and ordinal numbers (numbers used to rank a set of objects).
For example: Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain on earth.
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
6. To refer to groups of people, geographical areas and oceans, and with decades or groups of years.
For example- the Americans, the Sahara/Pacific, the fifties/sixties/seventies/eighties.
 Demonstratives
This, that, these and those are known are demonstratives; they describe the position of an object,
seen from the speaker’s viewpoint.
This and these refer to objects that close by. For example: Whose car is this? Whose cars are these?
That and those refer to objects that are further away. The closeness can be physical or psychological.
For example: Who lives in that house?
 Quantifiers
Quantifiers form a sub-class under determiners. They are adjectives or phrases that serve to answer two
possible questions:
1. How many?
2. How much?
For example:
 much
 a little/little/very little *
 a bit (of)
 a great deal of
 all
 enough
 many
 a few/few
 a number (of)
 Possessive Determiners
my, your, his, her, its, our, their
We use possessive determiners to show who owns or "possesses" something. The possessive

determiners are:
 my, your, his, her, its, our, their
Like all determiners, possessive determiners come at the beginning of a noun phrase, so they come in
front of any adjective(s).
Look at these examples:

1) This is my book.
2) The dog licked its wounded paw.
3) We have sold our house.
4) The students thanked their teacher.
 Interrogative Determiners
There are three interrogative Determiners in English grammar- what, which, whose. They are
used to frame a question. Interrogative Determiners usually ask questions about a noun and
are always followed by the noun.
1) Here are three books. Which book do you think is the most interesting?
2) What food do you like?
3) Whose car are you driving?
Q. Complete the following sentences using appropriate determiners.
1. Our garden looks awful this summer. There are too............... weeds. (much /many)
2. There aren’t.............. flowering plants in our garden. (much /many)
3. How................ pages did you read? (much / many)
4. They say.......................... knowledge is a dangerous thing. (little/ a little/ the little)
5. I am having....................... trouble passing my driving exam. ( a lot of/some)
6. .................. people can afford a home these days. (few / little)
7. You have ............. patience. (much / little)
8. In __________ Company were you employed before? (Which/What)
9. She earns................... money than I do. (less /fewer/lesser)
10....................... of the information proved to be outdated. (some / many)
11.I didn’t use.................. fertilizer last spring. (much / many)
12.I want to be ........good doctor when I grow up. (the/a)
13. Ensuring the safety of children is _________ responsibility? (what/whose)
14.If you know the answer, raise ..............hand. (your/my)
15.I haven’t invited .............. people to the party so I haven’t got ............. work to do.(much/many)
16.At last, .......... patriot in him revolted. (the/an)
17. Kalidas is...........Shakespeare of India. (the/a)
18. _________ is the reason for your sudden departure? (Which/What/Whose)

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We use possessive determiners to show who owns or "possesses" something. The possessive

 my, your, his, her, its, our, their

Look at these examples:

Q. Complete the following sentences using appropriate determiners.

18. _________ is the reason for your sudden departure? (Which/What/Whose)

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