Demonstrative Adjetives / English

 What are demonstrative adjectives?

A demonstrative adjective is a special adjective (often called a determiner) that identifies a noun or pronoun by expressing its position as near or far (including in time). The demonstrative adjectives are 'this,' 'that,' 'these,' and 'those.'

For example:

As you can see, THIS-THAT is used to refer to something in the singular, and THESE-THOSE to refer

to something in the plural.

THIS-THESE is used to refer to someone or something close to the speaker, and THAT-THOSE for someone or something far away.

In these examples, the noun or pronoun being modified is in bold.

• This shark is pregnant.

• That lady looks worried.

• Take these ones away.

(Here, the demonstrative adjective is modifying a pronoun.)

• Put those tins in the cupboard

Now we use the demonstrative adjectives in negative sentences

As in the affirmative, the THIS-THAT is used when the objective is close and the THESE-THOSE when it is far away.

these would be the previous examples in negative:

• This shark isn´t pregnant.

• That don´t lady looks worried.

• Don´t take these ones away.

• Don´t put those tins in the cupboard

Interrogative sentences

An interrogative sentence is a type of sentence that asks a question, as opposed to sentences that make a statement, deliver a command, or express an exclamation. Interrogative sentences are typically marked by inversion of the subject and predicate; that is, the first verb in a verb phrase appears before the subject.

In the topic, interrogative sentences are used as questions

Here are some examples using When, Where:

• When will you visit your moms?

• Where do you live?

• Why haven´t you started studying?

• What kind of music do you want to dance to?

• Which car would make you happier?

And here are another examples using This, That, These and Those:

• Is this tomato ripe enough to cut?

• is this bee okay?

• That great wall is quite far away, right?

• How is it possible that they are able to do that?

• Are these dishes there very dirty?

• Are these pens too worn to be used?

• Are those shrimp well cooked?

• Are those documents too disorganized to be cleaned?

Now we are going to do a workshop to help better understand the subject

Workshop

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Credits

What's up, my name is Samuel Caucayo Reyes, I am 17 years old and I am the creator of this blog, at this moment I am in tenth grade of secondary school and this blog is a project of the English area of that semester

In it you will be able to see different topics in the English area, all trying to explain them in the best possible way, I will be updating the blog every day if possible and I hope you like it and understand English a little better

I will also make an alternative page in which I will publish the same thing but in Spanish in case they cannot understand English at all