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Unit Goals    Grammar Notes     Warm-up

Unit Goals In this unit you will learn about:
  1. Determiners
    "I need that pen over there."

  2. Articles and adjectives
    "The job I have is very stressing"

  3. Quantifiers
    "I have lots of friends."




Grammar Notes
  1. When adjectives come before a noun, they usually have to go in a particular order: opinion, size/age/shape, color, nationality, material,+ noun

  2. Determiners are words used before a noun to limit its meaning in some way. e.g. I want THAT book.

  3. The three articles — a, an, the — are determiners because they are followed by a noun. I like the race.

  4. The determiners this, that , these, those are called demonstratives. This, these are used when things are close to the speaker in space or time. That, those are used for pointing to things that further away from the speaker in space or time.


Warm-up Click the answer button to see the answer.

  1. I've got ___ money. Let's have coffee.
    a. a little
    b. a few

  2. I've got ___ stamps that you can use.
    a. a little
    b. quite a few

  3. Uncle Carl is really ___________man..
    a. an old sweet man
    b. a sweet, old man
    c. a sweet old man

  4. He invited that ______ lady to dinner
    a. young beautiful
    b. beautiful young

  5. ______ city museum is closed today.
    a. A
    b. The
    c. An


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