those

«those» in Mova's school dictionary: Those points to things or people farther away; it is the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

determiner, pronoun (that, those)

meaning for a pupil

1) Those points to things or people farther away; it is the plural of «that». tree →

2) Those points back to things already talked about. tree →

3) «Those who» means the people who. tree →

sense in the lessons

refers back to things already told: «those apples», «of those»; in everyday talk, «those days», «one of those»; phrases «those who», «one of those»

examples

• He had 20 apples; 5 of those were red. tree →
• Those books cost 3 dollars each. tree →
• How many of those did she keep? tree →
• Those were all the marbles. tree →
• Look at those clouds over there! tree →
• Can you pass me those scissors? tree →
• Those who finish early can read. tree →
• In those days there were no phones. tree →
• Are those your shoes? tree →
• It was one of those days when everything went wrong. tree →
• Heaven helps those who help themselves. tree →

note

Refers to a group just named; «N of those» is a part of it. Trap: «of those» means a part, not a new group to add. Singular «that», plural «those»; near things are «this» and «these».

In the corpora

• Immigration means people moving to live in another country; countries have rules about it, and people disagree about those rules.
• Those stories belong to the person, and only they should share them.
• Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared most often in their training text.
• Critics and review sites give scores, but those are opinions, and your own taste may differ.
• Then you spot black spiky caterpillars on those same nettles, the babies of peacock and red admiral butterflies.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «those» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.