Year 4 Determiners Worksheets – KS2 Grammar Burst Resource Pack

This powerful KS2 grammar resources pack provides everything you need to teach a series of five lessons on determiners, culminating in an extended writing task where children can use their grammatical understanding in context.

What is a determiner?

A determiner is word that’s used to identify which particular thing we are talking about. It specifies a noun as known or unknown and goes before any modifiers (eg adjectives or other nouns). The articles ‘the’ (definite) and ‘a’ or ‘an’ (indefinite) are the most common type of determiner.

Determiner examples

• Julia’s dad bought her a football. The football was expensive! [‘the’ is a determiner and refers us back to a particular football]
• the home team [article, specifies the team as known]
• a good team [article, specifies the team as unknown]
• that pupil [demonstrative, known]
• Julia’s parents [possessive, known]
• some big boys [quantifier, unknown]

List of determiners KS2

• articles (the, a or an)
• demonstratives (eg this, those)
• possessives (eg my, your)
• quantifiers (eg some, every)

National Curriculum English programme of study links

A determiner specifies a noun as known or unknown, and it goes before any modifiers.

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