Referring to things or ideas. We normally use this, that, these and those as pronouns to refer to things or ideas: Put the butter, chocolate and sugar in a ...

That's right. This and that can refer to what somebody has said or what has happened. This could be several things or ideas. That's right.

This, That, These, Those are called demonstratives and they are used to show the relative distance between the speaker and the noun.

—often used informally to introduce a statement about something that makes a thing or situation better, worse, more important, etc.

Learn this, that, these and those, to refer to someone or something based on the distance they are to the speaker and if there is one or more than one.

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We can use this to refer back to whole clauses and sentences and to previous parts of a text. This highlights the information referred to much more strongly ...