单词 | demonstrative adjective |
释义 | > as lemmasdemonstrative adjective demonstrative adjective n. Grammar an adjective used to indicate its referent's location (spatially, temporally, or abstractly) in relation to the discourse context (as, in English, this, that, these, those).Demonstrative adjective (which is considered the traditional term) is now often used equivalently with demonstrative determiner n. ΚΠ 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 268 This is an Adjective... And it is a Demonstrative Adjective. 1784 R. Labutte French Gramm. iii. 15 Ce, cet, cette, this, or that; ces, these, or those, are the only demonstrative adjectives. 1847 D. C. Allen Grammatic Guide ii. iv. 26 Demonstrative Adjectives precisely point out the objects to which they refer;—as, ‘Let us investigate this subject.’ 1874 Jrnl. Women's Educ. Union 15 Sept. 138/1 In Adams's ‘Rudiments’ we find ‘the’ classed both as a demonstrative pronoun and as a demonstrative adjective. 1920 E. B. Davison Master Let. Writer v. i. 315 Demonstrative adjectives point out. 1987 Times 13 Apr. 14/6 If at all possible you must put an article or demonstrative adjective or determiner before a noun to identify the word as a noun for the unwary. 2003 R. L. Williams 20th-cent. Spanish-Amer. Novel 29 Pocaterra regularly uses demonstrative adjectives that lure the reader into assuming a role of experience shared with the narrator. < as lemmas |
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