English, asked by farhanshk25, 4 days ago

what is difference between they and those​

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Answered by ntanisha04
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they means people who are standing for from us

those means that thing is non living thing

Answered by Moonlight568
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Answer:

They” is a pronoun that stands for a plurality of people, animals, or things:

“The parrots flocked around us/They flocked around us.”

Those” is a pronoun and a determiner (you could paraphrase it as “the things over there”). Like “they” it is plural in nature and can refer to people, animals, or things:

“We want to care for the people around us/We want to care for those around us.” (those as pronoun)

Note that in many cases in the above examples you can interchange “they” and those” and have a grammatical statement—but the meaning and context is different or at least shifts. And in the case of “those” as a pronoun, “they” simply will not do. You cannot * “care for they around us” for example.

Some characteristics of “they”:

Refer to people, animals, things already mentioned

Sociological linguistic function to avoid indicating whether someone is man or woman (can be used as singular or plural in at least casual English)

Used to describe a general source that is unspecified and undefined (“they say that …”

Some characteristics of “those”:

Refer to people, animals, things already mentioned

Refer to things at some distance

Point to people/things you are going to give more info on

Discourse tool to check that speaker and listener are referring to same thing

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