DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
Definition and examples.
133. A DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN is one that definitely points out what persons or things are alluded to in the sentence.
The person or thing alluded to by the demonstrative may be in another sentence, or may be the whole of a sentence. For example, "Be that as it may" could refer to a sentiment in a sentence, or an argument in a paragraph; but the demonstrative clearly points to that thing.
The following are examples of demonstratives:—
I did not say this in so many words.
All these he saw; but what he fain had seen He could not see.
Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil.
How much we forgive in those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners!
The correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when the latter was the King of Spain.
Such are a few isolated instances, accidentally preserved.
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
They know that patriotism has its glorious opportunities and its sacred duties. They have not shunned the one, and they have well performed the other.
NOTE.—It will be noticed in the first four sentences that this and that are inflected for number.