| 6.4 Demonstrative pronouns |
Again we start to give a short overview about the function and the use of the demonstrative pronouns, later on we will come back to this topic and go into the details.
| Functions of demonstrative pronouns |
| a) Demonstrative pronouns refer to something, of which we do not know the name (or we do not want to use it). |
| Imagine you are on a market place and want to buy a piece of cheese, of which you do not know the name, you point at it and say: I would like to have something of this/that. |
| b) Demonstrative pronouns are used to emphasise something. |
| This idiot! He always does, what he wants to. |
| c) The neutral form of the French demonstrative pronoun is a way to refer to a unknown or not-defined subject or context (probably this is the most common used function of the demonstrative pronouns). |
| This is weird. => complete context of phrase
(That penguins shall hop on one leg, this is quite weird.) I do not know this. This is impossible. |
The system is quite complicated, however, we will now have a closer look at it.
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