2018-05-09 Grammar: this and that

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 320 exercise 7 - Complete the sentences with a correct article. (Sometimes more than one is correct.)
1 the
2 a
3 A (“I think it was your English teacher” = the speaker doesn’t know which teacher)
4 the (“They played beautiful music for your party” = speaker and listener both know which ones)
5 a / some / ∅
6 the / some (I, the speaker, may or may not have eaten Chinese food with you.)
7 some / ∅
8 the / a (It’s not clear if the speaker knows which card.)
9 a The
  b a
  c a
  d a (We say “the police”, and it’s always plural, but “a police officer” if we don’t know which one.)
  e the (Even if the robber wasn’t mentioned before, we know there is one specific robber involved because the story is about a robbery.)
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Handout p. 333 - With your partner, complete the conversation with “this”, “that”, or “it”, and then make up four final lines to finish it.
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“this” is near (here/now), “these” are near
“that” is far (there/then), “those” are far
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After something is referred to once with a demonstrative, a personal pronoun (“they”, “it”, “he”, “she”) or the determiner “the” is used.
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Homework: p. 335-336 exercise 1 - Complete the sentences with the correct determiners or pronouns. (In many cases, more than one answer is possible, but it might change the meaning.)