Question

EXERCISE 3: Fill in the blanks with Demonstrative Pronouns :
is the table I purchased last year.
1.
2.
is a very expensive towel.
3.
are mere excuses.
4.
are cotton clothes.
5.
are stale fruits.
6.
is my house and
is yours.
7.
is my father's old house.
are our fields;
are yours.
8.
of Delhi.
9. The climate of Shimla is better than
10.
flowers are lovelier than those.​

Answer 1

Question:-

Fill in the blanks with Demonstrative Pronouns :

Answer:-

This is the table I purchased last year.

This is a very expensive towel.

Those are mere excuses.

These are cotton clothes.

Those are stale fruits.

This is my house and that is yours.

That is my father's old house.

These are our fields; those are yours.

The climate of Shimla is better than that of Delhi.

These flowers are lovelier than those.

Explore more:-

• A Demonstrative Pronoun is used to point out the object or objects to which it refers.

For example:-

1. This is my purse.
2. That is your bicycle.
3. These are her dresses.
4. Those are our friends

• This and that are used in the Singular Number and these and those in the Plural.

• This and these refer to things near at hand.

• That and those refer to things lying at a distance.

Answer 2

Question:- Fill in the blanks with Demonstrative Pronouns.

1) ____ is the table I purchased last year.

2) ____ is a very expensive towel.

3) ____ are mere excuses.

4) ____ are cotton clothes.

5) ____ are stale fruits.

6) ____ is my house and ____ is yours.

7) ____ is my father's old house.

8) ____ are our fields; ____ are yours.

9) The climate of Shimla is better than ____ of Delhi.

10) ____ flowers are lovelier than those.

Answer:-

1) This is the table I purchased last year.

2) This is a very expensive towel.

3) Those are mere excuses.

4) These are cotton clothes.

5) Those are stale fruits.

6) This is my house and that is yours.

7) That is my father's old house.

8) These are our fields; those are yours.

9) The climate of Shimla is better than that of Delhi.

10) These flowers are lovelier than those.

ᎷᎾᎡᎬ ᎢᎾ ᏞᎬᎪᎡN:

→ Demonstrative Pronoun is a pronoun that is used to point/indicate something specific in a sentence.

Example:

(a) This is Sheela's bag.

(b) That is beautiful.

(c) Do you like these.

(d) Can you see those?

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Near Far

Singular This That

Plural These Those

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