Words and phrases before the head noun
Articles, quantifiers and numbers
- Put articles before the main noun.
a city, the city
- Indefinite articles (a, an) go with singular countable nouns to show general meaning.
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The definite article (the) goes with:
specific nouns
ordinal numbers – the sixth
‘same’ – the same number
superlatives – the fastest car
- Put quantifiers before the article:
All the money
Other quantifiers are: some, few, lot, many.
- Put numbers after articles.
the two books on the shelf
More info
- Quantifiers (with quiz) (British Council)