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a/an/the/zero · this/that · quantifiers · numbers

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# 3 Articles & determiners ## A1 - a or an: decided by the sound (an hour, a university, an MBA) - a / an with jobs (She's a doctor) - a vs one (a coffee, please / one coffee, not two) - the for specific things the listener knows - the with unique things (the sun, the internet) - a first, the second time (I saw a dog. The dog…) - this, that, these, those (near and far) - this / that as pronouns (This is Ali. What's that?) - this / that for time (this morning, that day) - Cardinal numbers and how to write them (twenty-one, a hundred) - Ordinal numbers (first, second, twenty-first) - Saying and writing dates (May 5, the fifth of May, in 2024) - Telling the time (half past six, a quarter to nine, 6:30) - Prices and amounts ($3.50 = three fifty) ## A2 - the vs no article: specific vs general (I like music / the music in this film) - No article in set phrases (at home, go to bed, go to work, by bus, have breakfast) - No article with meals, days, months, sports, languages and school subjects - much and many - a lot of / lots of in positive sentences - a few (countable) and a little (uncountable) - too much / too many - some in offers and requests (Would you like some tea?) - any meaning 'it doesn't matter which' (Call me any time) - no + noun and none (There's no milk. None left.) - something, anyone, nobody, everywhere… - everyone / somebody + singular verb (Everyone is here) - one / ones to avoid repeating a noun (the red one) - another, other, others, the other(s) - all and both (all the students, both of them) - each and every + singular noun - every day vs all day - something / anything / nothing + to-infinitive or adjective (something to eat; nothing interesting) - more as a determiner and pronoun (more coffee; more of the book) ## B1 - Articles with places: the Nile, the Alps, the UK; no article for most countries, cities, lakes, single mountains - go to school / hospital / prison (purpose) vs the school (the building) - the + adjective for groups (the rich, the elderly) - the + nationality (the French, the Japanese) - the with musical instruments and inventions (play the piano, the phone) - the with superlatives, ordinals, same, only, next, last - each vs every (each of, every one of) - either and neither (+ of; + singular verb) - both, all, whole (all of us, the whole day) - none of + noun - a hundred vs hundreds of; two thousand (no -s); millions of - Fractions, decimals and percentages (two-thirds, 2.5 = two point five, 40%) - Verb agreement with quantities (Half of the cake is… / Half of the students are…) - Approximate numbers and amounts (about, roughly, -odd, a dozen, a couple of) ## B2 - Generic reference: The tiger is… / A tiger is… / Tigers are… - Articles with abstract nouns (Life is short / the life of Mozart) - the + comparative, the + comparative (the sooner, the better) - next / last with and without the (next week / the next week) - the with parts of the body after a preposition (hit him on the head) - few vs a few, little vs a little - quite a few, quite a lot, plenty of - a great deal of, a large amount of, a large number of - hardly any, scarcely any - most / most of / the most - half (of) + noun - kind of / sort of / type of + noun and agreement (these kinds of problem) ## C1 - Determiner order: pre-, central and post-determiners (all the six big…) - Pre-determiners: half, all, both, double, twice, such a, quite a, what a - Floating quantifiers (We all agreed / We have all agreed / all of us) - Zero article in fixed phrases (at night, by car, in prison, on foot, from top to bottom) - a / an with abstract nouns + of (a good knowledge of, a fear of heights) - Articles with names (the Smiths, the late Mr. Hosseini, a Mr. Brown called) - No article with unique roles (He was elected President) - Semi-determiners: same, other, certain, various, numerous, several - so / too / how / as + adjective + a + noun (too good a chance; as big a problem as) ## C2 - any = whichever you choose (Any doctor will tell you…) - no vs not a (He's no expert / He's not an expert) - Stressed the /ðiː/ = the best or most famous (the place to eat) - none of + singular or plural verb

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