As nouns they have the basic four properties of nouns :• They are made from smaller words by the addition of other particles | distance as opposed to "this" i |
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Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to things that are either close proximate or far distant , the distance may be literal or figurative | Unlike the singular and plural forms the dual is by a change of the second last letter |
In English they are called demonstrative pronouns, because they are used to demonstrate or show something.
Example 2 shows this with the order reversed, this is seldom used | |
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MI ND : All demonstrative pronouns are definite, there are no indefinite demonstrative pronouns | The other simple demonstrative pronouns are given in the table above |