Five Aspects about Demonstrative Pronouns You Should Know | Exercises and Answers

There are five aspects about demonstrative pronouns you should know if you want to master English.

1. The Meaning

Demonstrative pronouns are pronouns that are used to indicate and replace a noun at the same time. Let’s see the following examples:

• This is my car.
• That’s yours.
• These are my books.
• Those are John’s books.
• Who’s that?
• That’s Christian.

2. Types of Demonstrative Pronouns

There are four demonstrative pronouns we usually use to replace a noun. Let’s see the following tables:

3. Demonstrative Pronouns And Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative pronouns can stand alone to represent nouns. Different from the demonstrative pronouns, demonstrative adjectives must be followed by nouns. Let’s see the following table: