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Demonstratives Demonstratives are used to specify the distance of something in space or time in relation to the speaker.The demonstratives are: this, that, these, those.This and these refer to objects near the speaker.- This apple looks ripe.
- These apples come from Australia.
The reference may be nearness in time, especially future time.- I’ll call round this afternoon.
- The festival ends this Thursday.
- This summer is the warmest I can remember.
That and those refer to objects that are further away from the speaker.- I think that boy over there is lost.
- Can you see those people up on the hill?
This and that are used before singular countable nouns and uncountable nouns.- I can touch this picture, but I can’t reach that one.
- This book is mine, but that magazine isn’t.
These and those are used before plural countable nouns.- I’m peeling these potatoes for a shepherd’s pie.
- Those men are mending the roof.
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