Los adjetivos demostrativos indican la vecindad o la lejanía de un objeto, de una persona o de un animal con respecto a quien habla.
Como caso único en la gramática inglesa, los adjetivos demostrativos van de acuerdo a el número del sustantivo al cual nos referimos.
Los adjetivos demostrativos ingleses son: this (“este, esta”), these (“estos, estas”), that (“aquello, aquella”) y those (“aquellos, aquellas, esos, esas”).
Ejemplos de aforismos de adjetivos demostrativos ingleses:
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence — and then success is sure.
Mark TwainThe best man is like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.
Lao TzuI do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
SocratesThis time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are two classes of poets – the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose BierceAction is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Oscar WildeThose who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
Henry Louis Mencken