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Quantifiers - Articles and Negative Quantifiers

Articles specify definite or indefinite nature of the noun as well as its number. Negative quantifiers refer to absence or non-existence of items or people.

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Categorized English Quantifiers
a

used when we want to talk about a person or thing for the first time or when other people may not know who or what they are

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an

used before a singular noun that starts with a vowel sound, when we are not talking about a specific person or thing

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the

used when referring to a person or thing that was previously mentioned or one that is identified easily

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no

used to show that there is none or almost none of something

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none

not any of the members of a group of people or things

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any

one or some of a thing or number of things, however large or small

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nil

used to indicate the absence or lack of something

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