ENGLISH LANGUAGE DETERMINERS CLASS 10 CBSE

POWER POINT PRESENTATION OF CLASS 10 CBSE

1. Determiners
By: -
Mr. Nityanandesh Narayan Tripathi
(PGT English)
JNV, Baghmara, SG Hills,
Meghalaya

2. Determiners (Definition) : -
The words that are used to
limit, determine or qualify
the meaning of a Noun or
Pronoun are known as
Determiners.

3. Determiners (Types) : -
Determiners
Articles Possessive Pronoun
Adjectives

4. Articles (Definition) : -
These are the words that tell
whether the Noun is General
(indefinite) or Particular (definite).

5. Articles (Types) : -
Articles
Definite Indefinite
The A An

6. Definite Article (Definition) : -
THE : -
This article tells about the
particularity of a Noun or Pronoun.

7. Definite Article (Explanation) : -
THE : -
Suppose some students are playing in the ground and the
teacher needs to call a specific boy from them then he will
use the sentence –
“Call the boy in yellow shirt from play ground.”
Simultaneously he will indicate towards him.
Teacher is calling this boy

8. Indefinite Article (Definition) : -
A / An : -
This article tells about the generality
of a Noun or Pronoun.

9. Indefinite Article (Explanation) : -
A / An : -
Suppose some students are playing in the ground and the
teacher needs to call any boy from them then he will use
the sentence –
“Call a boy in yellow shirt form play ground.”
He need not indicate towards any specific boy. Hence any
boy can be called from the boys playing in yellow shirt.
Any boy can be called.

10. Articles (Pronunciation) : -
Articles
A The
Weak Strong Weak Strong
In sentence In isolation
1.In sentence
2.With
Consonants
1.In isolation
2.With Vowels

11. Articles (Uses) : -
Noun
Countable Uncountable
Common Proper
Singular
Collective Material Abstract
Plural
Living
Non Living
A / An
The
***
The
*** *** ***

12. Articles (The - Detailed Uses) : -
1.Before the unique objects or things.
(i) the Tajmahal (ii) the Himalaya (iii) The Bible (iv) The Ganges
2.Before a thing mentioned second time.
(i) the pen that I gave to you. (ii) I gave a book to you. Where is the book?
3.Before superlatives.
(i) the best boy. (ii) the tallest building (iii) Last student
4.Before ordinals.
(i) the First student (ii) the second Position
5.Before ‘noun + of + noun’ combination.
(i) The Bay of Bengal (ii) The United States of America
6.Before Plural surname.
(i) The Sharmas (ii) The Smiths
7.Before Adjectives representing the whole class.
(i) The Old = All Old People (ii) The Intelligent = All Intelligent

13. Articles (The - Example) : -
The
The Gunga is a sacred river.
Can you find the United States of America in this Map?
The Sharmas are dancing in this party.
You must know that I am the most intelligent girl of school

14. Articles (A / An - Detailed Uses) : -
A / An
1.A - before the words starting with consonant sound.
2.An - before the words starting with Vowel sound.
1)A / An is used to show the singularity of Noun or
Pronoun.
2)A / An is used to show the uncertainty about some
noun or pronoun.
3) A / An is used to represent the whole class of
something.

15. Articles (A / An - Example) : -
A / An
A Ship is sailing in sea.
A Child needs love.
A Mr. Sharma is teaching English.
(Here the name or identity of Mr. Sharma is not known)
(All children or any child needs love.)
(A single ship is sailing.)

16. Possessive Pronoun (Definition) : -
Pronoun used to show the
possession of something by
someone only, not by any one
else, is known as Possessive
Pronoun.

17. Possessive Pronoun (Types) : -
Possessive Pronoun
SubjectiveObjective
Pronoun
used at
the place
of Subject
Pronoun
used at the
Place of
Object

18. Possessive Pronoun (Classification) : -
Subjective Objective
SingularPluralSingularPlural
1
st

Person
My Our Mine Ours
2
nd

Person
Your Your Yours Yours
3
rd

Person
His,
Her, Its
Their Him,
Her, It
Theirs

19. Possessive Pronoun (Example) : -
This is my cat. (This cat belongs to me only.)
This gun is mine. (This gun belongs to me only.)
That is your car. (That car belongs to you only.)

20. Adjectives (Definition) : -
These are the words that are used
to modify the meaning of a noun or
pronoun. They do it by telling the
quality, quantity, etc. of a noun or
pronoun.

21. Adjectives (Types) : -
Adjectives
Qualitative Numeral
Quantitative Demonstrative
Distributive Interrogative
Tri Colour Flag
Two Girls
All People
Many Butterflies
This Dog
Whose Scooter

22. Adjectives (Examples) : -
Adjectives Examples
Qualitative Good, Bad, Ugly, Beautiful, etc.
Quantitative Some, More, Much, Less, Many
Distributive Each, Every, All, Neither, Either
Numeral 1.Cardinal – One, Two, Three, etc.
2.Ordinal – First, Second, etc.
Demonstrative This, These, Those, That, Such
Interrogative What, Which, whose, etc.

23. How to Identify Determiners : -
To identify a determiner following
methods can be applied: -
1.Learn all the elements of
determiners. or
2.Generally all the words, except
verbs and connectors, coming
before Noun or Pronoun are
determiners.

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