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Career 2

Articles and determiners

a. indefinite article: a/an
We use a/an:
• to describe a singular noun.
• before professions.

• when something is mentioned for the first time.
b. definite article: the
We use the:
• when we are thinking of a specific thing.
• before the usual places and people the speaker goes to.
(e.g. bank, market, doctor.)
• when something is mentioned before.

• before systems and services.
• with adjectives such as, rich, poor, unemployed, etc. to talk about groups of people.
• when there is only one of something.

• with a superlative form of adjectives.
• with well-known buildings, works of art, museums, or monuments.
• with rivers, seas, oceans, mountain ranges, and country names if the country has a political title
in its name, or if it refers to a group of states/islands.
• before ordinal numbers.
• before (plural) family names (refer to the whole family).
• before musical instruments.

• in some fixed expressions.

quantifiers: a few/a little/much/many/several

with countable nouns with uncountable nouns with countable & uncountable nouns

a few, few a little, little any, some
many/not many much/not much a lot of/lots of
several, a couple of a bit of, less, a great deal of all, more, most, plenty of

There are a few new buildings in the area.
There aren’t many chairs here. We need to find more.
There wasn’t much snow this winter, so we couldn’t go skiing.
We have a great deal of time, don’t worry. (enough, lots of time)
All students are taking the exam. (30 of 30 students)
Most students are taking the exam. (25 of 30 students)

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