CITATION

Lester, Mark. Practice Makes Perfect English Articles and Determiners Up Close. McGraw-Hill, 2013.

Practice Makes Perfect English Articles and Determiners Up Close

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Published:  August 2013

eISBN: 9780071753555 0071753559 | ISBN: 9780071752060
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I: Articles
  • 1 An introduction to articles
  • Four types of articles
  • Categories of nouns
  • Singular count nouns, plural count nouns, and noncount nouns
  • Distinguishing between count and noncount nouns
  • 2 The definite article the
  • The pronunciation of the
  • The meaning and use of the
  • 3 The singular indefinite article a/an
  • A versus an
  • The meaning and use of the singular indefinite article a/an
  • A summary of indefinite article uses
  • 4 The indefinite article some
  • Idiomatic uses of the indefinite article some
  • The meaning and use of some
  • The some/any question rule
  • The some/any negative statement rule
  • Other some/any rules
  • 5 The zero article
  • Zero article, definite articles, and indefinite articles
  • Present-tense forms
  • Adverbs of frequency
  • 6 Summary of article usage
  • The definite article the
  • The singular indefinite article a/an
  • The indefinite article some
  • The zero article, Ø
  • II: Determiners
  • 7 An introduction to determiners
  • Comparative and superlative forms
  • Ability to function as pronouns
  • Word order
  • 8 Definite determiners
  • Demonstrative determiners
  • Possessive determiners
  • 9 Quantifiers
  • A few / few; a little / little
  • A lot of
  • All / all (of) the
  • Many / much
  • Review of quantifiers
  • Answer key