Name: THIS or THAT? THESE or THOSE? Master English Demonstratives!
Uploaded: 2026-03-22T18:00:33.000Z
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Hey, E. Do you know which way you're going?

Future simple

Today I'm going to teach you demonstratives.

These words you have to know, they're sort of like articles.

And if those two words you're going, what is he talking about?

Okay, so an article is a baseline when it's a or the.

There's demonstratives are sort of like this pen.

And I'm going to teach you the four words we use to point to something that tells us time and distance.

So the demonstratives we're going to talk about are this, that, these, and those.

And we're going to use it to use distance, number, and time.

When we want to talk about something that's close to us, and

that's the basic essence of these words, it's about something being near or far.

And I'll show you how we can use that idea of near, which is close and far, to talk about time, distance, and

Now, distance, if something is close to you, like right beside you, you're going to say this.

The pen is going to be close to me in my hand, or I can actually touch it.

All right, now, when I use the word that, that is far away, notice the arrow goes away.

So we can say this is for things near, close to us, while that is for things far or away from us.

I'm just going to say it's a distance away.

And the house is probably right in front of me.

That's because we want to be able to use these words to talk about things that are in the ones.

And these are the plural words, or those are for plurals.

So this marker, or if I were to do this and go.

These markers, because they're far away, that would tell you distance, right?

Notice they are multiple or many or just in case you didn't see the beautiful color choices I have?

And you say, why only blue or black when you have orange or red?

Or this marker that's close to me or that marker far away.

So we can use this to tell us there is more than one single object or more than one object.

So we've covered distance and we've covered number.

So much so that we can actually use these words to talk about time.

Well, when we talk about this, right, we're saying this, we're saying present tense.

So this time I'm going to do it right, right now, present tense.

But if we want to talk about the future or the past, we can use that.

So someone could say to you, do you remember that time when we went to the beach?

That's in the past because that is far away from us, not now.

So we can use our demonstrative to talk about time, and

we can use it for the past or the present.

I can use it for the future in saying, hey, I can't wait for our trip to Florida.

Or I can say, this is the best time of my life and I'm talking about right now.

So by using this and that, these and those, we can talk about.

We can talk about time using that or this.

So you use demonstratives to talk about three different things, and it's really four words.

Now, I'm hoping you got a greater understanding of these words if you didn't before.

If you're new, you probably just learn them from me.

And you want to look at a lesson on articles to make a more complete lesson.

So you get the full idea of how we use these words to talk about our world.

And if you've, you know, you're a senior student, I'm going to try and give you a little something right now to give more depth to your learning.

So if you want to, because if you're new, you might get confused with this and these, those and that.

Think of it means some extra, some meaning.

It's a little trick to help you remember so you don't get confused with this or these.

I know it can be difficult, but that trick should help you.

So se means some extra, and then extra is more.

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