Stop Confusing THIS and THAT Demonstrative Pronouns Explained

demonstrative pronouns dear students we continue to study english pronouns the topic of our session today is demonstrative pronouns it's not necessary to say that demonstrative pronouns are used very often in everyday life demonstrative pronouns serve to point to objects and sometimes to people in sentence the demonstrative pronouns replace the noun so look at the demonstrative pronouns let's start demonstrative pronouns are the following this that these and those but these words can act as different parts of speech therefore in the future we will learn to distinguish between demonstrative pronouns and indicative adjectives pronouns differ in plural and singular this and that are used to indicate or denote an object or person in the singular for example have you seen this look at that these and those are used to indicate order note objects or persons in the plural for example these look perfect those flowers were beautiful this the demonstrative pronoun this singular is used to indicate close object or time this building is old if we're talking about time then it could be the current period of time or the moment of conversation for example this is bad time these the demonstrative pronoun these is used to indicate close objects or time these are my friends if we're talking about time then it could be the current time or the moment of conversation for example these are bad times that the demonstrative pronoun that in singular is used to indicate distant object or time can you see that if we're talking about time it may be point in time in the past do you remember that summer those the demonstrative pronoun those in the plural is used to refer to distant objects or time those buildings are new if we're talking about time it means the distant time those were the days for convenience we compile table this is used for indication of close object that is used for indication of distant object these is used for indication of close objects and those is used for indication of distant objects note the rules when using the demonstrative pronouns this these that and those before the noun the article is not used give me the book give me this book in sentences where the same subject is repeated several times in speech it is replaced by one this bag is very small by that one the use of the demonstrative pronoun when referring to person is considered impolite this is my worker it sounds disparaging to the worker it should be said in polite way tom is my worker it is impossible to separate the study of demonstrative pronouns from the study of demonstrative adjectives note it is easy to confuse demonstrative pronouns and indicative adjectives after all the words this that these and those are completely identical only their role and location in the sentence are changed let's look at the differences between demonstrative pronouns and demonstrative adjectives the demonstrative pronoun replaces the noun for example want this in this case this can mean any object cake bag etc that answers the question what and acts here as demonstrative pronoun the adjective is always near the noun and always indicates some kind of noun quality for example that cake was delicious in this case that acts as demonstrative adjective which denotes the sign of the noun cake and answers the question which now is the time for the test let's start these are bananas this is tree but those are flowers is that river these apples are very nice are these the letters for alex such also in this topic it's worth mentioning the very popular and often used word such which can act as both pronoun and an adjective such is used to indicate the quality or feature of an object and can be used with nouns singular always followed with after such and plural without the article she is such nice girl such answers the question what and acts as an adjective pens pencils markers and such are in this set such means things of this type and is pronoun hope that you understand this topic now you can grammatically correctly point at any subject and don't forget to practice don't miss any chance to use the demonstrative pronoun in your everyday life give me this book those trees are old oaks look at that and finally we remember the proverbs they are very instructive beware of silent dog and finally we finish with the statement practice makes perfect