🔑 DETERMINERS: Practice Exercises Answer Guide

Use this guide to verify your answers for the Determiners chapter exercises.

A.1 Narrative Context Fill-in

• Gaps in order of appearance:
• Blank 1: → many (or "some")
• Blank 2: → few (used contrastingly as "a few")
• Blank 3: → many (or "some")
• Blank 4: → many (or "some")
• Blank 5: → few (refers to a small encouraging number)
• Blank 6: → much (or "enough" / "some")
• Blank 7: → more
• Blank 8: → enough (or "sufficient")
• Blank 9: → many

A.2 Identifying Missing Determiners

• a) / Girl was sitting... → A
• b) ...here and there for / person... → a
• c) ...help her start / car... → the
• d) / Man who was running... → The
• e) Her for / minutes... → a few / some
• f) ...if / no one comes... → ✗ (No determiner needed here, or edit context structure)

A.3 Editing: Correct the Determiner Errors

• a) Once I visited a old palace... → an (vowel sound alignment)
• b) ...was in a jungle of Malwa... → the (specific regional jungle)
• c) ...and a palace was completely... → the (referring back to the same palace)
• d) ...hidden inside the tall bushes, both of its... → their (refers to the plural bushes/pillars)
• e) Pillar was completely destroyed... → Pillars (or change "both of its pillars were")
• f) ...but the either eleven of them... → other (specifying the remaining count)

A.4 Sentence-Level Challenge (Few / Little)

• 1. I have few friends in this city, so I often feel lonely. (Negative sense, almost none)
• 2. Can you give me a little water? I am feeling a bit thirsty. (A small positive quantity)
• 3. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. (Idiomatic proverb)
• 4. The few students who attended the extra class passed the exam. (All of that small, specific group)
• 5. The poor man had little money to buy even a loaf of bread. (Negative value, practically none)

A.5 Distributive Challenge

• 1. Each (or Either) side of the road was lined with beautiful trees.
• 2. I enjoy reading every book written by this author. (Refers to the total collection collectively)
• 3. Neither of the two sisters is ready to take the blame. (Rejects both choices completely)
• 4. Each student was given a personalized feedback form. (Individual breakdown)
• 5. You can take either of the two paths; both lead to the station. (One or the other of two options)