Demonstrative pronouns
المؤلف:
EVELYNP.ALTENBERG & ROBERTM.VAGO
المصدر:
English Grammar Understanding the basics
الجزء والصفحة:
P87-C4
2025-11-06
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Demonstrative pronouns
Do you remember the underlined words in the sentences below?
1. Are you sure you want this?
2. We agreed about that.
3. I’m not sure I like these.
4. Those look delicious.
We talked about the use of demonstratives before a noun, for example: this dog, that idea, these songs, those curtains. That is, we talked about demonstratives used as determiners. But demonstratives can also be used without a noun following them, as you can see from sentences 1-4. In these cases, because the demonstrative replaces a noun (or noun phrase), it is called a demonstrative pronoun. For example, insentence1, the demonstrative pronoun this can be replacing a noun such as spaghetti or magazines.
It’s easy to remember demonstrative pronouns, because there are only four of them; they are listed in Quick tip
Quick tip
There are only four demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, and those.
It might help you remember the word ‘‘demonstrative’’ if you think of these words as ‘‘demonstrating’’ something, in a way, pointing to something.
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