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

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.

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

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Thus, according as nouns, participles and demonstrative pronouns are applicable to God, so far can He be signified by relative pronouns.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

These pronominal adverbs, like the demonstrative pronouns, are very numerous and also include the points of the compass.

From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton)