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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

This excercise

Purpose: This exercise helps you to understand the difference between essential and non-essential relative clauses and their effect on the use of the comma. Remember, a comma is needed to separate non-essential relative clauses from the rest of the sentence but not used with essential relative clauses.

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Is "this" a demonstrative pronoun functioning as an adjective and modifies the noun "excercise"?

Which meaning or use of "this" is used here?

Why "this excercise" sounds more natural than "the excercise" in the context?

  

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Jigneshbharati Is "this" a demonstrative pronoun functioning as an adjective and modifies the noun " exercise "? It is just a demonstrative adjective. The demonstratives serve two equal functions: Demonstrative pronouns are the same words used for demonstrative adjectives - this, that, these and those.

— Mister Micawber

  • Jigneshbharati Is "this" a demonstrative pronoun functioning as an adjective and modifies the noun " exercise "?
  • It is just a demonstrative adjective.
  • The demonstratives serve two equal functions: Demonstrative pronouns are the same words used for demonstrative adjectives - this, that, these and those.
  • The difference is in the sentence structure.
  • The demonstrative pronoun takes the place of the noun phrase.
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JigneshbharatiIs "this" a demonstrative pronoun functioning as an adjective and modifies the noun "exercise"?

It is just a demonstrative adjective. The demonstratives serve two equal functions:

Demonstrative pronouns are the same words used for demonstrative adjectives - this, that, these and those. The differenc

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