Determiner/modifier

Could you please explain the terms "determiner" and "modifier"? (Note how to ask this kind of question. )

Determiners are those small words which come before nouns, like articles (a, an, the), possessive adjectives (my, your, his, ...), demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those), and a few others (some, each, ...).

Modifiers are words which change the meaning of the other words they are grouped with. Adjectives modify nouns, for example. "the ball" can be described in more detail by adding the modifier "big": "the big ball". "the big blue ball" contains one more modifier, "blue".

Adverbs modify verbs, for example. "I like to play football" becomes "I like to play football very much" or "I like to play football every day" if we add the modifier "very much" or the modifier "every day".

I hope that helps.

CJ