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.

Duration: 4:17
Posted: Jun 27, 2022

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.

Duration: 10:01
Posted: Mar 12, 2020

Mar 6, 2020 · This, that, these and those. This, that, these and those are demonstrative pronouns. We use them to point to specific people or things.

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 ...

Duration: 3:29
Posted: Aug 2, 2020