Demonstratives – Free Exercise

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Exercises

Choose the correct demonstrative determiner.

  1. I really like restaurant!singular noun → this
  2. I prefer glasses to ones over there.1. plural noun, close to the speaker → these
    2. plural noun, further away from the speaker → those
  3. chair here is a lot more comfortable than one.1. singular noun, close to the speaker → this
    2. singular noun, further away from the speaker → that
  4. Would you rather have strawberries or peaches?1. plural noun, close to the speaker → these
    2. plural noun, further away from the speaker → those
  5. For the price of video game, you can buy three of classic boardgames.1. singular noun, close to the speaker → this
    2. plural noun, further away from the speaker → those

Choose the correct demonstrative determiner.

  1. I hope that summer will be nicer than weeks of rain we had last year. 1. time upcoming in the near future
    singular noun → this
    2. completed time in the past
    plural noun → those
  2. boys over there challenged boys here to a football match.1. plural noun further away from the speaker → those
    2. plural noun close to the speaker → these
  3. I like film a lot more than one they showed last week.1. singular noun, temporally close to the speaker → this
    2. singular noun, temporally distant from the speaker → that
  4. You can’t compare football teams from the fifties and sixties to teams of today.1. plural noun, temporally distant from the speaker → those
    2. plural noun, temporally close to the speaker → these
  5. meal tastes so much better than one we had two weeks ago.1. singular noun, temporally close to the speaker → this
    2. singular noun, temporally distant from the speaker → that