What Are These Holes In My House?

This and these are used in different ways when you are referring to people, things, situations, events, or periods of time. This, that, these and those are demonstratives. We use this, that, these and those to point to people and things.

These and those are plural. See examples of these used in a sentence. This, that, these, and those are demonstratives used to point to specific people, things, or ideas.

This and these are demonstratives, which means they indicate a specific noun in a sentence. Definition of these in oxford advanced american dictionary. You use these when you refer to something which you expect the person you are talking to to know about, or when you are checking that you are both thinking of the same person or thing.

For a plural thing, use these. (when you’re holding the phone in your hand or pointing to it nearby) do you like these shoes? These are the simple rules you have to follow.

I have always wanted to own books like these.