What are Demonstrative Adjectives?

What are Demonstrative Adjectives?

Demonstrative adjectives specify what is referred to, whether it is singular or plural, and provide information about its proximity to the speaker.

Demonstrative pronouns exist as well and share the same forms as demonstrative adjectives, but we can distinguish demonstrative adjectives because they modify nouns.

Common demonstrative adjectives include:

Examples:

"This book is informative."

"Those flowers are beautiful."

In both sentences, the words “this” and “those” are demonstrative adjectives because they modify the nouns “book” and “flowers”.

This differentiates them from demonstrative pronouns, which replace nouns rather than modify them.