Is those a singular?

This, that, these and those are demonstratives. We use this, that, these and those to point to people and things. This and that are singular. These and those are plural.

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This, that, these and those are demonstratives. We use this, that, these and those to point to people and things. This and that are singular. These and those are plural. We use them as determiners and pronouns.

Can I have one of these?

Come and look at this.

I might get myself a pair of those shoes.

Ian is in Germany all this week.

Johan seemed very happy this afternoon.

I’ll be with you some time this evening.

We often use this with words describing time and dates like morning, afternoon, evening, week, month, year to refer to ‘the one that’s coming’ or ‘the one we’re currently in’:

I need to paint those windows. ( those + plural noun)

You can use any one of these computers. ( these + plural noun)

We use these and those with plural nouns:

Can I have some of that juice, please? ( that + singular uncountable noun) I’ve never been to that part of France. ( that + singular countable noun) What does this music make you think of? ( this + singular uncountable noun) Try to repeat this exercise every morning and evening. ( this + singular countable noun)

We use this and that with singular and uncountable nouns:

This , that , these , those as determiners

Hello, is that Ken Orm? This is Jane Bromham here.

We often do this in telephone calls and in answer-phone messages:

Is that your brother over there?

Linda, this is my mother, Anne.

We can use this and that as pronouns to refer to people when we want to identify ourselves or others, or to ask the identity of other speakers:

What colour are those? Black or dark blue. I can’t see.

Can you turn that off if you’re not watching it?

We’re going to eat first and then go to the film. Are you happy with that? (Are you happy with the idea of eating first, then going to the film?) Put the butter, chocolate and sugar in a saucepan. Heat this over a low flame until it melts. We normally use this, that, these and those as pronouns to refer to things or ideas:

This , that , these , those as pronouns

Then suddenly she pulled out this big pile of papers from her briefcase and threw them on the table. This guy knocked on the door and asked if I wanted new windows. We sometimes use this instead of a/an to refer to something important or recent, or to introduce a new person or thing in a story: You know that old shop on the corner? Well, they’re going to turn it into a restaurant. We sometimes use that instead of the to refer the listener to shared knowledge, often when we are telling a story or explaining something:

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Promotion

I didn’t like the decoration. It had those awful paintings.

What are you going to say to that sister of yours?

We use that and those to create distance:

I love these new woollen mobile phone covers that you can get.

We sometimes use this, these, that, those to identify emotional distance. We use this and these to refer to things that we feel positive about, that we are happy to be associated with, or we approve of:

Sometimes they are not visible to either the speaker or listener:

Could you blow out those candles near you?

What’s in that bottle over there?

We use that and those most commonly to point to things and people which are not easy to identify in a situation. They are often more distant from the speaker, and sometimes closer to the listener:

Do these belong to the Bradshaws?

I’ll post these letters on my way home.

Is this what you mean?

Shall I use this knife here?

We use this and these most commonly to point to things and people that are close to the speaker or writer, or things that are happening now:

This and these , that and those : uses

Substitution with that, those

In formal contexts, we can use that and those as substitutes meaning ‘the one(s)’: The most important information is that given at the beginning of the manual. (that substitutes for the information) The methods employed are those familiar to researchers. (more formal than The methods employed are the ones familiar to researchers.) In formal contexts, especially in academic style, we use that of/those of instead of the one of/the ones of or the … one/the … ones. This is preferred to the possessive X’s one/X’s ones: The proton has a similar mass to that of a neutron. (preferred to The proton has a similar mass to the neutron’s.)

The emotions in the poems are those of loss and grief.

Not: The emotions in the poem are loss and grief ones.

We normally only use that as a substitute for a thing, not for a person or animal: A: Have you met Mr Kelly? B: The one who works at the town hall, or his brother? A: The one at the town hall.

Not: That who works at the town hall.

We can use those as a substitute for persons, animals or things:

dictionary.cambridge.org - This, that, these, those - Grammar - Cambridge Dictionary

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