GROUP B
(Demonstratives (questo, cotesto, quello) "this, that, these, those, this one, that one)
(As already noted for the adjective English lacks the demonstrative of the second person: that near you.)
—Show a child the prisms of the brown stair; this prism is thicker than that prism; that prism is thinner than these prisms.
Show a child the prisms of the brown stair; this is thicker than that; that is thinner than these.
—Let us look at the children: this child is taller than that child; that child is shorter than this child.
Let us look at the children: this one is taller than that one; that one is shorter than this one.
—Here is a cone on top of a cylinder: try to put the cylinder on top of the cone.
Here is a cone on top of a cylinder: try to put this on top of that.
—Let us show the cubes of the pink tower to a little girl: this cube is the largest; those cubes are the smallest of the series.
Let us show the cubes of the pink tower to a little girl: this one is the largest; those are the smallest of the series.
GROUP C
(Relatives and Interrogatives: (che, il quale, cui, chi? quale?) who, whom, whose, which, that, who? whose? whom? what? which? where, when?)
Note: The situation with the relatives is different in English: who refers to persons; which to things; that to either persons or things; whereas che and il quale are interchangeable referring to both persons and things, il quale having special rhetorical advantages over che, in addition to showing gender and number. Cui is used after prepositions; and, for the possessive Italian has il cui, la cui, etc., "whose".
—Ask the children: Which child wants to see my drawing?
Ask the children: Who wants to see my drawing?
—Ask Charles for the pencil; Charles put the pencil into the drawer.
Ask Charles for the pencil which Charles put into the drawer.
Ask Charles for the pencil that he put into the drawer.
—Thank Charles. Charles gave you the pencil.
Thank Charles who gave you the pencil.
—Look at the children. You hear the children in the next room.
Look at the children whom you hear in the next room.
—Yesterday you put the flowers into a vase: change the water in the vase.
Change the water in the vase into which you put the flowers yesterday.
Change the water in the vase where you put the flowers yesterday.
Change the water in the vase that you put the flowers into yesterday.
—Choose among the pieces of cloth the cloth most like your dress.
Choose among the pieces of cloth the one which is most like your dress.
Choose among the pieces of cloth the one that is most like your dress.
—Here is the little girl. We found her pocketbook.
Here is the little girl whose pocketbook we found.
—Here is the boy. We saw him yesterday.
Here is the boy whom we saw yesterday.
—Select an inset from the insets used for drawing.
Select an inset from those which are used for drawing.
Select an inset from those that are used for drawing.
GROUP D
(Possessives: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs)
—This book is my book
This book is mine
—This book is your book
This book is yours
—Those pencils are his pencils
Those pencils are his
—Those pencils are her pencils
Those pencils are hers
—That house is our house
That house is ours
—This money is your money
This money is yours
—Those seats are their seats
Those seats are theirs
—This place is its place
This place is its