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Demonstrative
"Demonstrative" in a Sentence (10 examples)
There are too many demonstrative pronouns. To put it bluntly, it couldn't be harder to understand.
As Tom isn't very demonstrative, it's hard to tell how he feels about my good news.
"This" and "that" are English demonstrative pronouns.
Mary came from a very physically demonstrative family.
This is a demonstrative pronoun.
In university, in Canada, I learned two different kinds of English, technical English and non-technical English, from different courses. I learned that the passive voice, as in "The cat was chased by the dog," is unacceptable in non-technical style, but technical writers use it frequently and legitimately. I learned in technical English that one should use demonstrative pronouns like "this" and "that" with a substantive, not by themselves. There were a lot of nuts and bolts.
The staff is too precise to express something so conceptual, so it is purely demonstrative in nature that it is written like that, which is just one possible chord configuration.
an argument necessary and demonstrative
demonstrative eloquence
He had rather a contempt for demonstrative people, arising from his medical insight into the consequences to health of uncontrolled feeling.
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