A practical english grammar - Vyssaja skola 1978

The noun determiners
Sound symbols

We have already presented some of the more important noun deter­miners (see Chapter 1): the articles a, an, and the; the demonstratives this, that, these, and those; the quantifiers some, any, a lot of, and lots of. We learned that these are chosen according to whether the follow­ing noun is a mass noun or a count noun and whether it is singular or plural. Other noun determiners are listed in Table 13-1 and are classi­fied according to the kind of noun that may follow.