Banco de questões: Pronomes e Adjetivos: Demonstrativos

While Emma and her friends were hanging out at the mall, they noticed a beautiful jacket on display in the window of a store. Emma wanted to comment on the jacket and get her friends' opinions. Which sentence correctly uses a demonstrative adjective to describe the jacket they saw?

Consider the following excerpt from Emily Dickinson's poem: 'This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me, The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty.' In this context, identify the usage of demonstrative pronouns and adjectives in the poem.

Imagine that you are a tour guide in a museum and you are explaining a historical artifact to a group of students. The artifact in question is a set of three different items from various periods, and you want to explain the use of each item using demonstrative pronouns. The first item, a quill pen, you will label as 'this', the second item, a typewriter, you will label as 'that', and the third item, a modern tablet, you will label as 'those'. Now, compose a brief essay explaining the significance of each item in the evolution of writing tools, using the correct demonstrative pronouns to refer to each item. Your essay should demonstrate your understanding of how to use demonstrative pronouns to distinguish items in the context of a historical narrative.

What is the function of 'that' in the sentence 'Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything that I scorn'?

Identify and explain the usage of demonstrative pronouns in the following excerpt from a contemporary short story: 'This is the place where she found the old book. That is the man who helped her when she was lost.' Analyze how the two different demonstratives contribute to the coherence of the text and the clarity of reference to the previously mentioned things and people. Discuss the potential confusion or loss of information that could occur if a different type of pronoun, such as personal pronouns, were used instead of the demonstratives in this context.