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

Good news and bad news come along with demonstrative pronouns.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

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

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

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

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The demonstrative pronouns, this, that, there, those, would take the following forms: Mau, this; aho, that.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

By-the-bye, it's fatal when people begin to think of each other as hes and shes; the softest proper name that ever was whispered is not half so dangerous as those demonstrative pronouns.

From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.