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Hi, everybody and welcome to this video.
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We’re going to talk about how to use ‘these’ and ‘those’.
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Okay.
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Uhhh, just like we learned with ‘this’ and ‘that’,
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we use ‘these’ and ‘those’ to talk about nouns that are close to us
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or far from us.
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Okay.
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So, let’s take a look at the board.
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Now, we know if there is just one,
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and it’s close to us,
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we say, “This is a flower”.
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Okay.
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But there’s more than one.
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It’s plural.
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So we have to say, “These”.
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“These are flowers.”
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Again, more than one.
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Now, I change the ‘be’ verb to ‘are’
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and I added an ‘s’ at the end of ‘flower’.
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So, “These are flowers.”
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Okay.
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Now, there’s one that’s far away.
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We say, “That is a flower.”
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But, again, there’s more than one.
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There are two flowers.
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So, in that case, we use, “Those are flowers.”
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“Those are flowers.”
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They’re far away.
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“Those are flowers.”
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Let’s look at these.
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“This is a marker.”
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“These are markers.”
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“That is a marker.”
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“Those are markers.”
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Okay.
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Let’s move on to the next part.
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So we know “These are flowers”.
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They’re close by.
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And for the flowers that are far away, we say,
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“Those are flowers”.
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Okay.
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But over here we have ‘chairs’.
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So, we have to use the negative.
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Okay.
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We use the contraction ‘aren’t’
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which is short for ‘are not’.
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“These aren’t flowers.”
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“These aren’t flowers.
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Okay, and for the chairs that are far away,
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we say, “Those aren’t flowers”.
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“Those aren’t flowers.”
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Okay, and let’s try with the markers.
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“These aren’t pens.”
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“These aren’t pens.”
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Okay, and far away.
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“Those aren’t pens.”
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“Those aren’t pens.”
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Okay, let’s move on to the next part.
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Okay, now we’re going to make some questions.
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We know, “These are flowers”.
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When you want to make a question, you have to change
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‘these are’ and put the ‘be’ verb first.
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So, it becomes, “Are these flowers?”.
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“Are these flowers?”
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And the answer is “Yes, they are.”
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Okay, now the flowers are far away.
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So we say, “Are those flowers?”.
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“Are those flowers?”
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And again, the answer is “Yes, they are.”
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Okay. Now here, we have chairs.
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“Are these flowers?”
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The answer is “No, they aren’t.”
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Okay, now they’re far away.
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“Are those flowers?”
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And again, the answer is “No, they aren’t.”
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How about these? “Are these markers?”
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“Yes, they are.”
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“Are those markers?”
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“Yes, they are.”
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“Are these pens?”
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“No, they aren’t.”
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“Are those pens?”
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“No, they aren’t.”
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Okay, so in this video, we learned how to use ‘these’ and ‘those’.
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I hope you guys understand and I’ll see
you in the next video.
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Bye.
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