These or those: do you know when to use each one?

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These or those? Creating plurals of adjectives can be confusing… If you tend to get confused about when to use one or the other, we have created this article for you: it will help you understand it definitively. No more doubts!




These or those, demonstratives
Demonstratives are used in English, and also in Spanish, to refer to things poland phone number list are more or less close to us. In the case of these and those, they are demonstrative adjectives that help us locate objects and people in space in English .

This/these is used to talk about entities that are close to the speaker.
That/those refer to more distant entities.
The confusion of a Spanish speaker arises because in this language we have three demonstrative determiners of this type: este, ese or aquella. When expressing ourselves in English we may not know when to use these or those .

When to use these or those ?
These or those are the plural forms of this and that respectively, so their use follows the same rules. As usual, we will use the plural forms when objects, people and other types of entities are also plural.