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Definition of Demonstratives
1. demonstrative [n] - See also: demonstrative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demonstratives
Literary usage of Demonstratives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"In Late Latin, the demonstratives ILLE and ILLA became specialized as third person
pronouns and lost their original force as demonstratives, ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"The traces we find in Tamil of the existence of demonstratives in il and al are
more indistinct than those of the interrogative el; ..."
3. A Short Comparative Grammar of English and German: As Traced Back to Their by Victor Henry (1894)
"It will be sufficient to point out, as they occur, a few interesting peculiarities
which present themselves in the different classes of demonstratives, ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"The traces we find in Tamil of the existence of demonstratives in il and al are
more indistinct than those of the interrogative el; but if an interrogative ..."
5. Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language by Isaac Nordheimer (1841)
"Remote demonstratives. § 892. The remote demonstratives (demonstrativa remote)
that, those, are expressed in Hebrew by a personal pronoun placed ..."
6. A Grammar of the Modern Spanish Language as Now Written and Spoken in the by William Ireland Knapp (1896)
"demonstratives. 259. The demonstratives are determinative adjectives with ...
The demonstratives este, ese, and aquel naturally stand before the noun which ..."
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