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    what is the definition for demonstrative pronouns

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    It represents a thing or things.


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    A demonstrative pronoun stands on its own, replacing rather than modifying a noun:
    This is good.
    I like those.
    There are five demonstrative pronouns in English: this, that, these, those,[8] and the less common yon or yonder (the latter is usually employed as a demonstrative determiner; even so it is rarely used in most dialects of English, although it persists in some dialects such as Southern American English.).[9] Author Bill Bryson laments the "losses along the way" of yon and yonder:
    Today we have two demonstrative pronouns, this and that, but in Shakespeare's day there was a third, yon (as in the Milton line "Him that yon soars on golden wing"), which suggested a further distance than that. You could talk about this hat, that hat, and yon hat. Today the word survives as a colloquial adjective, yonder, but our speech is fractionally impoverished for its loss.
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