{"id":338,"date":"2010-03-23T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:53:46","slug":"thisthatthesethose-demonstrative-adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/adjectives-adverbs\/thisthatthesethose-demonstrative-adjectives\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>This\/That\/These\/Those<\/em>: Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstrative adjectives <em>this\/that\/these\/those<\/em>, which may also be pronouns, tell us where an object is located and how many objects there are.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><em>This<\/em> and <em>that<\/em> are used to point to one object. <em>This<\/em> points to something nearby, while <em>that<\/em> points to something &#8220;over there.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"22%\"><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78%\">This dog is mine.<br \/>\nThis is mine.<br \/>\nThat dog is hers.<br \/>\nThat is hers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><em>These<\/em> and <em>those<\/em> refer to more than one object. <em>These<\/em> points to things nearby, while <em>those<\/em> points to things &#8220;over there.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">These babies have been smiling for a while.<br \/>\nThese are mine.<br \/>\nThose babies in the nursery have been crying for hours.<br \/>\nThose are yours.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstrative adjectives this\/that\/these\/those, which may also be pronouns, tell us where an object is located and how many objects there are. This and that are used to point to one object. This points to something nearby, while that points to something &#8220;over there.&#8221; Examples: This dog is mine. This is mine. That dog is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives-adverbs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}