Adjectives and Adverbs

In today's Grammar HELP! Student Handbook - Online! lesson, we continue our unit on Adjectives and Adverbs.

Today we focus on DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES. 

You can read our prior lesson, Nouns that Function As Adjectives, before you begin today with the exercises.

Demonstrative Adjectives

A demonstrative adjective is placed directly before a noun that the writer has just mentioned or referred to.

SINGULAR PLURAL

this ~ these ~
that ~ those ~

  • Some people are poor and wish to be wealthy.  Some are wealthy and wish they were happy too.  Some people are lonely and wish to have a family.   These fantasies help people to aspire to a better life.


THIS and THAT

The singular demonstrative adjectives this and that are used with both count and noncount nouns.

  • I like this sculpture.

  • Many students come to this college from different countries.

  • The flowers in Manta City make this city especially beautiful.

  • This homework is taking me a long time to do.

THESE and THOSE

The plural demonstrative adjectives these and those are used with only count  nouns.

Questions:  

1.  Why do you think that these and those are only used before count nouns?

2.  For the sentence in the example above, which fantasies is the writer referring to?

Click here for the answers to "Questions: Demonstrative Adjectives".

Next... Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives

Join us next week for our next lesson, "Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives".

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