Determiners MCQ — 3 Practice Questions with Answers

Explanation

The sentence naturally takes 'some' before 'eggs' because the speaker wants an unspecified quantity in an affirmative statement. It takes 'any' before 'money' because the clause is negative: 'haven't got any money'. 'Any, some' reverses this normal use and makes the first affirmative clause awkward. 'All, little' changes the meaning to buying every egg and having only a small amount of money, which does not fit 'haven't got'. 'Few, a little' also conflicts with the negative structure and gives an unnatural sense.

Explanation

The blank comes before the singular noun 'student', so 'Every student' is the correct determiner phrase. It means that each student passed the examination. 'All' would need a plural noun, as in 'All students'. 'Very' is an intensifier for adjectives or adverbs, not a determiner before a countable noun in this sentence. 'None' cannot directly modify the singular noun in this way; the grammatical expression would be 'No student' or 'None of the students', neither of which is printed.

Explanation

The sentence refers to a small number of countable friends, but it also says those friends are sincere. The few means not many, but all that exist, and it suits the positive sense of the sentence. The little is used with uncountable nouns and cannot qualify friends. None would make the noun phrase ungrammatical here because the sentence still says he has friends. Much is also used with uncountable nouns, so it cannot modify the plural countable noun friends.