SDS Spanish Module 10: Demonstrative Adjectives [Instant Access]

Here’s how to say this, that, these and those in Spanish. This group of words is known as demonstrative adjectives or demonstrative pronouns, or neuter pronouns. Which is weird - How can one group of words be three different parts of speech? Remember that adjectives describe nouns, and pronouns replace nouns. In this sentence, I like these shoes. THESE is an adjective. It describes a noun, shoes. You can like new shoes, red shoes, clean shoes… or THESE shoes. But that word can also be a pronoun. I don’t have to say the word shoes. I can motion to the shoes, or hold them up, and say “I like these.” In that case, I’ve replaced the noun with THESE, so THESE is a pronoun. In English, we group these words by proximity - how close something is. If the noun is close to you, we say “this” or “these,” and if it’s further away we say “that” or “those.” These words are also grouped by number: this