Demonstrative adjectives close demonstrative adjectiveUsed to point out a specific thing or person, or to emphasise something. This, that, those and these are demonstrative adjectives in English. are ...

In English composition, we have the so-called demonstrative reference words as handy devices for making our point more immediate and forceful without unduly repeating ourselves. We will recall that ...

In mid-August, Forum member Justine Aragones posted in the Forum these two intriguing and I’d say provocative grammar questions: (1) “I noticed the word ‘that’ was used as introductory word for an ...

Two weeks ago, we started the series on word classes. And last week, we delved into report writing. I thought it would be useful to intersperse the series, so we go back to word classes this week. We ...