Clarify Your Message: Determiners in Action for Class 8

This worksheet strengthens Class 8 learners’ command of determiners—words that come before nouns to give more detail or limit meaning. Covering six types (articles, demonstratives, possessives, distributives, quantifiers, and numbers), students work through sentence completions, story-based edits, and corrections to apply grammar in real-world writing.

Why Determiners Matter in Grammar?

Determiners play a vital role in:

1. Giving precision and clarity to nouns in speech and writing.

2. Distinguishing between general and specific references.

3. Structuring meaning through quantity, ownership, and specificity.

4. Enhancing descriptive fluency in academic and creative writing.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?

This worksheet includes five determiner-focused tasks:

✏️ Exercise 1 – Pick the Perfect Fit
Students complete sentences by selecting the correct determiner from multiple-choice options.

🔍 Exercise 2 – Determiner Detective
Learners identify and underline determiners in sentences and classify them by type (e.g., article, possessive, quantifier).

🧠 Exercise 3 – Fill the Gap
A sentence-based fill-in-the-blank task where students choose from a given set of determiners, using each only once.

✅ Exercise 4 – Master the Missteps!
Students spot and correct one error in each sentence related to improper determiner use.

📚 Exercise 5 – Determiner Stories
A narrative story task where learners apply appropriate determiners in context by filling in blanks.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Pick the Perfect Fit

1. a

2. those

3. Each

4. my

5. a few

6. This

7. the

8. some

9. several

10. those

11. Most

12. her

Exercise 2 – Determiner Classification
Examples:

1. This – Demonstrative

2. Five – Number

3. Most – Quantifier

4. That – Demonstrative

5. Any – Quantifier

6. My – Possessive

7. Both – Distributive

8. A few – Quantifier

9. This – Demonstrative

10. All – Quantifier

11. A – Article

12. Her – Possessive

Exercise 3 – Fill the Gap

1. a

2. all

3. those

4. an

5. some

6. a

7. every

8. those

9. each

10. few

11. those

12. that

Exercise 4 – Master the Missteps

1. some

2. those

3. their

4. fewer

5. an

6. a few

7. These

8. much

9. either

10. any

11. This

12. the

13. Every

14. a little

15. your

Exercise 5 – Determiner Stories

1. a

2. an

3. that

4. Every

5. some

6. which

7. a few

8. each

9. One

10. few

Equip your child with advanced grammar fluency through precise determiner usage across formats—from daily speech to narrative writing.

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