Determiners

Question 1

why are determiners helpful in identifying parts of speech?

Answer 1

The often act as islands of reliability.
definite article-the
indefinite article-a/an

Question 2

how to identify a determiner?

Answer 2

Try substituting with another unambiguous determiner e.g. the/their without it becoming ungrammatically incorrect

Question 3

what words are always determiners

Answer 3

a, an, your, its, our, their, and my. Others can belong to other words classes as well e.g. his/her and the demonstratives could be pronouns as well as

Question 4

How many types of determiners?

Answer 4

articles: the/ an/an
demonstratives: this, these, that, those
possessives: my, your, his, her, its, our, their

Question 5

many and some are are what forms of determiners?

Answer 5

demonstratives