3. Determiners and Pronouns

A clear understanding of determiners and how they are used is important in order not to confuse with pronouns. The following examples illustrate the differences between them. Determiner Pronoun This car is very expensive. This is a very expensive car. That castle is haunted. That is a haunted castle. The blue parrot is mine. My parrot is blue. (Possessive pronoun) The candy bar in the box is hers. Her candy bar is in the box. (Possessive pronoun) As can be easily noticed, the determiner always appears before a noun while a pronoun takes the place of a noun. Some quantifiers can be used with countable nouns, some with uncountable nouns and some with both countable and uncountable.