Determiners adalah kata yang diletakkan di depan nomina (nouns) yang berfungsi sebagai penanda (noun markers) yang memperjelas makna kata benda tersebut.

Misalnya:

Computer bila ditambah determiners those, yaitu those computer, maka kita akan tahu komputer mana yang dimaksud.

Beberapa determiners, yaitu:

1. Possessives , misalnya: your, her, my, his, their, our, its, my parents', whose, dll.

My shirt is in the room

My parents’ is at my grandfather’s house

2. Quantifier: A few, much, many, a little, some, any, every, each, dll.

Every student needs study hard

3. Artikel (a, an, dan the)

Eating an apple every day is good for our health

The good news is a history book still available at the library

4. Ordinal number/bilangan bertingkat: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, dll.

My first sister will go to Hongkong next week

I will go to the fifth floor

5. Demonstrative (this, that, these, those, etc)

This desk used by my manager

Those oranges belong to Jack’s mother

6. Number/angka: one, two, three, dll.

Five balls had bought last night by mother

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