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Nathan mckane Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

They Those

Hi , I have just started teaching some 12-year-old children .

I want to know if there is any difference between the words those and '' they''.

Can they and those always be used interchangeably ?
  

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Nathan, nathan mckane Can they and those always be used interchangeably ? - under no circumstances should they be used instead of one another. First, they belong to different classes of pronouns: they - to personal pronouns, those - to demonstratives.

— Andriy Lapin

  • Nathan, nathan mckane Can they and those always be used interchangeably ?
  • - under no circumstances should they be used instead of one another.
  • First, they belong to different classes of pronouns: they - to personal pronouns, those - to demonstratives.
  • Secondly, the former substitutes a plural noun ( Children are quick to learn - They are quick to learn), and the latter is more often used in conjunction with a noun ( Those children are quick to learn).
  • ' Those are quick to learn' is also possible, but there are intricacies which go beyond the scope of your question.
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Nathan,
nathan mckaneCan they and those always be used interchangeably ?
- under no circumstances should they be used instead of one another. First, they belong to different classes of pronouns: they - to personal pronouns, those - to demonstratives. Secondly, the former substitutes a plural noun (Children are quick to learn - They
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nathan mckaneI want to know if there is any difference between the words those and they.
Can they and those always be used interchangeably ?
There is a difference, and they cannot be used interchangeably. For one thing you cannot use "they" like an adjective before a noun. For example, you say, "those tables" or "those birds" or "those cars", but you c
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Thanks very much for your comprehensive answers
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They is a plural form of pronouns "He and She" but " Those" is a plural form of " It "

We interchange They with Those when talking about persons. but we can't use They in place of Those when talking about things e.g

Those boys are friend = They are friend.

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