DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES
[Sidenote: _Not primarily pronouns._]
146. The words of this list are placed here instead of among
pronominal adjectives, for the reason that they are felt to be
primarily adjectives; their pronominal use being evidently a
shortening, by which the words point out but stand for words omitted,
instead of modifying them. Their natural and original use is to be
joined to a noun following or in close connection.
[Sidenote: _The list._]
The demonstrative adjectives are _this_, _that_, (plural _these_,
_those_), _yonder_ (or _yon_), _former_, _latter_; also the pairs
_one_ (or _the one_)--_the other_, _the former_--_the latter_, used to
refer to two things which have been already named in a sentence.
[Sidenote: _Examples._]
The following sentences present some examples:--
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance
that would _those_ looks reprove.--GOLDSMITH.
These were thy charms...but all _these_ charms are fled.--_Id._
About _this_ time I met with an odd volume of the
"Spectator."--B. FRANKLIN.
_Yonder_ proud ships are not means of annoyance to you.--D.
WEBSTER.
_Yon_ cloud with _that_ long purple cleft.--WORDSWORTH.
I chose for the students of Kensington two characteristic
examples of early art, of equal skill; but in _the one_ case,
skill which was progressive--in _the other_, skill which was at
pause.--RUSKIN.
Exercise
Find sentences with five demonstrative adjectives.
[Sidenote: _Ordinal numerals classed under demonstratives._]
147. The class of numerals known as ordinals must be placed here,
as having the same function as demonstrative adjectives. They point
out which thing is meant among a series of things mentioned. The
following are examples:--
The _first_ regular provincial newspapers appear to have been
created in the last decade of the _seventeenth_ century, and by
the middle of the _eighteenth_ century almost every important
provincial town had its local organ.--BANCROFT.
These do not, like the other numerals, tell _how many_ things are
meant. When we speak of the seventeenth century, we imply nothing as
to how many centuries there may be.
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