a word that introduces a noun in a clause

a naming word for people, places or things

a type of determiner that denotes specificity of a noun

a type of determiner that denotes possession of a noun by another noun

Determiners: articles and possessive pronouns review

English

In this unit, pupils build and apply to sentence contexts their understanding of determiners and a variety of fronted adverbials. 

In 'Review of determiners, prepositions and froted adverbials', pupils stretched their understanding of noun, adjective, verb and adverbs word classes to incorporate understanding of determiners and fronted adverbials. In this unit, pupils will build and apply to sentence contexts their understanding of determiners and a variety of fronted adverbials.  

In this unit, pupils review previous learning about articles and possessive pronouns and they learn two new determiners: quantifiers and demonstratives. They review that fronted adverbials can be single words, phrases or clauses and that any fronted adverbial gives detail of time, place or manner.

Key grammar terminology, including determiners and fronted adverbials

Which word class is introduced by a determiner? 

What kind of determiners are 'a', 'an' and 'the'? 

Which of the following words can act as determiners? 

It would suggest that we don't really need to go to the hospital.

It would suggest we don't have a specific hospital in mind. 

It would suggest we wanted to go to one particular hospital.

How would using the article 'a' instead of 'the' change the meaning of the sentence 'Take me to **the** hospital'?

Which of the following determiners could fit in this gap? 'I opened __________ door and I gasped in horror.'

a word that introduces a noun in a clause or phrase

a type of determiner that helps us show who owns a noun

a type of determiner that helps us show how specific we are

a naming word for a person, place or thing

Match the keywords to their definitions. 

a naming word for people, places and things

Which of the following is the best definition of a noun? 

describes a noun - it tells us what it's like

describes a verb - it tells us how it's done

Mrs Begum's tired face frowned down at us. 

Mrs Begum's tired, anxious face frowned down at us. 

Mrs Begum's tired face frowned down at us angrily. 

We watched the long, dull film in the sitting room. 

Match the word classes to the example words. 

Tick the sentences which have a missing word. 

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Determiners: articles and possessive pronouns review

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.