Brighter Grammar 1 - Margaret Macaulay 1987
Lesson Bight. Demonstrative and interrogative adjectives
There are also adjectives that ’point out’ people, things, etc.
This and these are generally used for things that are near. That and those are generally used for things that are further away. This and that go with singular nouns. These and those go with plural nouns.
This car is old. (singular)
That car is old. (singular)
These cars are new. (plural)
Those cars are new. (plural)
This, that, these, those are demonstrative adjectives.
There is one other kind of adjective that we must mention.
Interrogative adjectives are used with nouns to ask questions.
What book are you reading now?
What price are eggs today?
Which boy can answer this question?
Exercises
A Complete the sentences with a demonstrative adjective in each blank space.
Example: girl over there is beautiful.
Answer: That girl over there is beautiful.
1 I like ... flower.
2 I like ... flowers.
3 ... stars are in the east.
4 ... star is called the North Star.
5 Have you read ... book I am reading?
6 Do you like ... shoes I am wearing?
7 Will you give me ... pen for ... silver pencil?
8 ... girls on the back seat are not working as hard as ... girls on the front seat.
9 I bought ... apples from ... shop in the High Street.
10 ... exercises we are doing on ... page are more difficult than ... exercises we did on page seven.
В Make the following phrases plural.
Example: that picture
Answer: those pictures
1 this door
2 that house
3 that big boy
4 this red apple
5 this new bicycle
6 that open window
7 that clever girl
8 that large fierce animal
9 this clean new book
10 that small yellow orange
C Make the following phrases singular.
1 those boys
2 these boys
3 those blue flowers
4 those black hens
5 these big dogs
6 these stupid boys
7 those large fierce animals
8 those dirty old books
9 these fine new bicycles
10 these bright red flowers
D Complete the sentences with an interrogative adjective in each blank space.
Example: ... hand am I holding it in?
Answer: Which hand am I holding it in?
1 ... bicycle is that?
2 ... questions have you answered?
3 ... time is it now?
4 ... lesson do you like best?
5 ... colour were the bottles on the wall?
E Pick out the adjectives in the following and say what kind of adjective each one is.
Example: Whose car is that red Peugeot?
Answer: Whose - interrogative adjective
that - demonstrative adjective
red - adjective of quality
1 There were four apples and two oranges on the plate.
2 This book is a good one.
3 A clever boy can soon do these exercises.
4 There are not many students in the class today.
5 I saw four birds in the tall tree.
6 We haven’t much time to do this long exercise.
7 I wish my mother would buy me that big, new bicycle.
8 Which bicycle do you want?
9 What price is that bicycle?
10 Those four boys are brothers.
11 Nine green bottles were standing on this old wall.
12 When that song finished, there were no green bottles on the wall.
13 Whose pencil is on the desk?
14 What time are you going to the football match?
15 I think this new watch is a good one.