Determiners and types of noun

Some determiners can only be used with a singular countable noun. These are:

a/ananothereacheithereveryneitherone

Would you likeanother glassof water?

Life gets more expensiveevery day.

A:

Can we meet on the 15th or 16th?

B:

Sorry.Neither dateis good for me. What about the 18th?

Much,(a) little, lessandleastcan only be used with a singular uncountable noun:

We didn’t getmuch snowlast winter.

There islittle informationI can give you, I’m afraid.

We sometimes uselesswith plural nouns, but this is not always considered correct:

There wereless childrenthere today than last year.(There were fewer children… is considered correct.)

We usethisandthatwith singular countable or uncountable nouns, but not with plural nouns.Thisrefers to something near the speaker;thatrefers to something further away:

That filmwas fantastic.(countable)

This furnitureis so ugly!(uncountable)

For plural nouns, we usetheseandthose.

Both, many, (a) few, the numberstwo, three, four, etc.,several,theseandthoseare only used with plural nouns:

It all happenedmany yearsago.

I just havea few photosof my grandparents.

Several itemswere missing when we opened the box to unpack everything.

Some determiners can only be used with an uncountable nounor with a plural noun:

Would you likesome juice, or milk?(uncountable noun)

Do we haveenough cupsfor everybody?(plural noun)

We need to buypaperfor the printer.(zero determiner, uncountable noun)

Some determiners can be used with any type of noun, singular or plural, countable or uncountable.

Determiners which can be used in this way:

1. any(‘strong form’ meaning ‘it doesn’t matter which’)

2. some(‘strong form’ meaning ‘certain/particular’; stressed and pronounced/sʌm/)

3. which(as a question word)

   what(as a question word)

4. my,your,his,Anna’s, etc.

5. such

6. the

7. what

8. whose

9. no

Wecan use thesedeterminers +ofbefore pronouns:

We had twenty tickets to sell and we soldall of themin less than an hour.

A:

Which box do you want?

B:

Either of themwill be fine, thanks.

We’ve got loads of umbrellas – you can borrowone of ours.