Answers to Demonstrative Adjectives Unit

Demonstrative Adjectives

 

  • 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 .


Questions:  

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

A noncount noun always takes a singular form; therefore, you cannot use a plural demonstrative adjective before it.

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

"These" refers to unhappy people's wish to be happy, poor people's wish to be wealthy and lonely people's wish to have a family.


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