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Hello everybody, today we are going to talk about demonstratives.

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Demonstratives in English are these, that, these and those.

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We are going to see when we use each of them.

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So, first of all, we have to see if we are referring to one object or person or whatever,

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then we will use the singular demonstratives or if we are referring to more than one in that case

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we will use the plural demonstratives. Another thing that you have to see when you are speaking

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and you use a demonstrative is if the object or objects are near the person that is speaking

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or it is far away or they are far away. In the case that we only have one thing

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that we are referring to, okay, and it's near the speaker, we will say this is an

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apple. We will use this, this, okay? When it's one object but that object is

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placed far away, the demonstrative that we use is that. So we will say that is

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an apple. If we have two or more, that is to say more than one, we will use the

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plural ones, no? If they are near we will use these are apples. The demonstrative

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is these. And if they are far away the demonstrative that we use is those.

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those are apples ok here we have it again and now we see the chart with

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singular plural near far so we remember if it's singular that is to say one

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object we are referring to and it's near the speaker we say we use this if it's

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one and it's far away from the speaker we use that if it's more than one I mean

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two or more okay and it's near the speaker we use these and if it's more

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than one one two or more and it's far away from the speaker we use those well

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hopefully it's everything understood and so this is the end thank you very much for listening