Grammar - Beginner - Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns
The words this, these, that and those are called demonstrative pronouns. They are showing words.

This is my house.
This is a hill.
These are donkeys.
What is this?
Did you drop this?
Hi, Jane! This is Michael!
That is John’s house.
That is a mountain.
Those are horses.
What are those?
We can do better
than that.
No, that’s not mine.
You mean you won?
That’s amazing!
Hello, who is that speaking, please?
Hello, is that you, George?

You use this and these when you point to things
near you.
You use that and those when you point to things
farther away.

Demonstrative pronouns can be singular or plural:
Singular                 Plural
this                         these
that                         those