Phrase(နာမ္အစု):

 Nounႏွင္႕ဆံုးေသာစကားစုကိုNoun Phraseဟုေခၚသည္။

၄င္းတြင္Determiner(the,a,this,some,......),

Adjective,Adverb,Nounစသည္တို႕ပါ ၀င ္သည္။ Subject (ၿပဳလုပ္သူ)ႏွင္႕

Completement (ၿဖည္႕စြက္ခ်က္) တို႕သည္ အမ်ားအားၿဖင္႕ Noun Phraseမ်ားၿဖစ္ၾကသည္။

 ဥပမာ။ ။1. a beautiful girl

2. Some people A Adj n D n DETERMINERS Noun ၏ ေရွ႕တြင္ သံုးရေသာအေရအတြက္ၿပစကားလံုး( a,some,any,a few,much,......ႏွင္႕ၫႊန္ၿပစကားလံုး(this,that,those,..........) စသည္မ်ားကိုDeterminers မ်ားဟုေခၚသည္။ # Noun ႏွင့္ တြဲသံုးရေသာ Determiners မ်ား မွာ-- (a)a,an,one,this,that,every,each, ကို Countable Noun, Singular Number (ေရတြက္ရနာမ္၊ တစ္ခုကိန္း) ႏွင္႕ တြဲသံုးရသည္။

* a,an,one,this,that,every,each, + Countable Noun, Singular Number* (b)two,three,four,.....,these,those,many,few,a few, ကို (ေရတြက္ရနာမ္၊အမ်ားကိန္း)ႏွင္႕တြဲသံုးရသည္။

*two,three,four,.....,these,those,many,few,a few,+ Countable Noun, Plural Number* (c)all,a lot of ကို Countable Noun, Plural Number (ေရတြက္ရနာမ္၊အမ်ားကိန္း) ႏွင္႕ လည္းေကာင္း Uncountable Noun (ေရတြက္မရနာမ္) ႏွင္႕ လည္းေကာင္း တြဲသံုးရသည္။

* all,a lot of + Countable Noun, Plural Number/ Uncountable Noun*

(d) much, little, a little , this , that , ကို Uncountable Noun (ေရတြက္မရနာမ္) ႏွင္႕ တြဲသံုးရသည္။ *much, little, a little , this , that , + Uncountable Noun*

(e) some ,any, no, the, ကို All Nouns (နာမ္အားလံုး) ႏွင္႕ တြဲသံုးရသည္။

*some ,any, no, the+ All Nouns* (f)fewer........than ကို Countable Noun ႏွင္႕တြဲသံုးၿပီး ၊ less .......than ကို Uncountable Noun ႏွင္႕တြဲသံုးကာ more.........thanကို All Nouns (နာမ္အားလံုး) ႏွင္႕ တြဲသံုးရသည္။

* fewer........than + Countable Noun* / *less .......than + Uncountable Noun * /

* more .........than+ All Nouns* Pets (အိမ္ေမြးတိရိ စၦာန္ မ်ား) Cat rabbit dog hamster မီးတိုပါးတြဲႀကြက္ Boy & Girl (ေယာက္်ားေလးႏွင္႕မိန္းကေလး) Boy Girl

EX ERCISE (3) Choose the correct determiners in the following sentences.

1.He doesn’t have (many/much) money.

2.I would like (a few/a little) salt on my vegetables.

3.She bought (that/those) cards last night.

4.These are ( less/fewer) students in this room than in the next room.

5.There is( too much/ too many) bad news on T.V tonight.

6.I don’t want (these/this) water.

7.This is (too many/too much) information to learn.

8.A (few/little) people left early.

9.Would you like (less/fewer) coffee than this?

10.This jacket costs (too much/too many).

11.I saw (a/an/the) young man.

12.Who is (a/the) boy standing at the door?

13.We get light and heat from (a/the) sun.

14.He is (a/the) cleverest boy in our class.

15.(A/An/The) earth is round.

16.This house is very nice. Has it got (a/the) garden?

17.It’s a beautiful day. Let’s sit in (a/an/the) garden.

18.What is (the/a) name of that man we met yesterday?

19.There isn’t (a/an/the) airport near where I live.

 20.He has (less/few) friends.

21.She has(many/much) free time.