Determiners
Determiners form a class of words that occur in the left-most position inside noun phrases. They thus precede nouns, as well as any adjectives that may be present.
The most common determiners are the and a/an (these are also called the definite aticle and indefinite article).
Here are some more determiners:
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Determiners: Advanced
The following is taken from Bas Aarts's Grammarianism blog.
In a recent blog post on terminology I mentioned the word class of determiners, and said that they are a relatively new word class.
By 'relatively new' I mean 'early twentieth century'. The National Curriculum Glossary definition, determiner, is very brief, here I'll expand on it.