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Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative Adjectives

Adjectives are determiners that can be placed in two different positions within a sentence to modify or describe a person or a thing.

Demonstrative adjectives are used to place objects in space and identify their position.

Demonstrative adjectives come before nouns and introduce them. We don’t use articles and other determiners before demonstrative adjectives.

Singular Plural

Near: This / These

Far: That / Those

Demonstrative Adjectives

EXAMPLES:

Near.- This car belongs to my father (singular).

          These shoes are too big for me (plural).

Far.- That boy is from Turkey (singular).

        Those boxes over there are very heavy (plural).

Demonstrative Adjectives

We use demonstrative adjectives when we place objects in space and identify their position in relation to their distance from the speaker:

Near: we use this (singular) and these (plural) for things and people that are near to the speaker (here).

Far: we use that (singular) and those (plural) for things and people that are far (there).

Multiple Choice

Use this or these.

Is ___ my drink or it's yours?

• This

• These

Multiple Choice

Use that or those.

_____ birds are chirping loudly.

• Those

• That

Multiple Choice

Use the proper demonstrative.

_____ cellphone on the table is mine!

• This

• That

• These

• Those

Multiple Choice

Use the proper demonstrative.

Can you see ____ prices? They're unreal!

• Those

• These

• That

• This