Demonstrative Adjective
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A Demonstrative Adjective is a demonstrative word that is an adjective.
- Context:
- It includes the following adjectives list:
- this
- that
- these
- those
- It is used to point (demonstrate) to a particular person, object or concept.
- …
- It includes the following adjectives list:
- Example(s)
- Sentence(s) with a demonstrative adjective:
- That tree is beautiful.
- This car is expensive.
- …
- Sentence(s) with a demonstrative adjective:
- Counter-Example(s)
- Sentence(s) without a demonstrative adjective:
- The tree is beautiful.
- An expensive car.
- Sentence(s) without a demonstrative adjective:
- See: English Language, Word, Deictic, Linguistic Frame of Reference, Discourse, Abstraction, Anaphora (Linguistics), Adjective, Determiner, Noun, Pronoun.
References
2017a
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstrative Retrieved:2017-6-18.
- Demonstratives (abbreviated DEM) are words like this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. They are typically deictic, their meaning depending on a particular frame of its reference. Demonstratives are often used in spatial deixis (using the context of the physical surroundings of the speaker and sometimes the listener), but also in intra-discourse reference - so called “discourse deixis" (including abstract concepts) or
anaphora, where the meaning is dependent on something other than the relative physical location of the speaker, for example whether something is currently being said or was said earlier.
Demonstrative constructions include demonstrative adjectives or demonstrative determiners, which qualify nouns (as in Put that coat on); and demonstrative pronouns, which stand independently (as in Put that on). The demonstratives in English are this, that, these, those, and the archaic yon and yonder, along with this one or that one as substitutes for the pronoun use of this or that.
- Demonstratives (abbreviated DEM) are words like this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. They are typically deictic, their meaning depending on a particular frame of its reference. Demonstratives are often used in spatial deixis (using the context of the physical surroundings of the speaker and sometimes the listener), but also in intra-discourse reference - so called “discourse deixis" (including abstract concepts) or
2017b
- (Wiktionary, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demonstrative_adjective Retrieved:2017-6-18.
- Noun: demonstrative adjective (plural demonstrative adjectives)