Word Class: Demonstrative Determiners

Syllabus: CBC * Grade 5 * English * Strand 1.0 Grammar in Use * Sub-strand 1.3 Word Class: Demonstrative Determiners (Theme: Child Rights and Responsibilities)

Lesson objectives

By the end of this topic, you should be able to:

• Identify demonstrative determiners -- this, these, that, those -- in a variety of texts.
• Use demonstrative determiners correctly.
• Promote the use of the correct demonstrative determiner during communication.

Summary

In this topic, you will learn about demonstrative determiners -- this, these, that, those -- and how to use them correctly to show whether something is near or far, and singular or plural.