demonstrative pronouns

Cultural  

1. Pronouns that point to specific things: this, that, these, and those, as in “This is an apple,” “Those are boys,” or “Take these to the clerk.” The same words are used as demonstrative adjectives when they modify nouns or pronouns: “this apple,” “those boys.”

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Example Sentences

The good news is that there are only four demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, and those.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

However, the world of pronouns extends to reflexive, indefinite, and demonstrative pronouns as well.

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Good news and bad news come along with demonstrative pronouns.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Demonstrative Pronouns.+—This and that, with their plurals these and those, are called demonstrative pronouns, because they point out individual persons or things.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

There are many prefixes to its nouns and verbs, which before the former are articles or demonstrative pronouns.

From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various