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What pronouns are this or that?
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What type of word is this and that?
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 ...
—often used informally to introduce a statement about something that makes a thing or situation better, worse, more important, etc.
This. A thing or a person is. close. This = singular. That. A thing or a person is. far. That = singular. These. Things or people are. close. These = plural.
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 ...