What is the difference between "This one" It is "that" and when to use? The terms 'This one' It is 'that' occupy the class of demonstrative pronouns according to our Portuguese language grammars. However, these terms have different functions in a sentence, so they are easily confused by many who try to follow the standard cultural norm of our language.
To better understand and not make mistakes about the conditions of their uses, we have selected their differences here to leave no more doubts.
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First, you need to know what the demonstrative pronouns are those that indicate the position of: a) of the one who speaks, b) with whom one speaks and c) of whom one speaks, that is, the so-called people grammatical.
Therefore, we see that each of these uses vary according to space, with the writing, that is, the text and with time, and, according to the which is intended, one of these three types of forms is employed, and you must be aware of this, note that they can be divided into three types:
1 – This, this, these, these, this
They can be used in relation to:
a) space: indicating what is close to the person being spoken to:
These boys are messy.
Important: When the thing being spoken about is close to the person being spoken about and if it can be accompanied, even if implicitly, by the adverb ‘here’, we must use the form this, observe:
write This one text (here) to tell you about the trip.
b) text: indicating what will be said, indicating a cataphora:
This one article aims to teach.
c) tense: indicating the present, that is, the moment in which one speaks:
This one course we are doing is amazing.
2 – This, this, these, these and this
a) space: indicating what is close to the person being spoken to:
Those Newspapers are old.
b) text: indicating something that has been said before, indicating an anaphora:
That week was very hot. Those days were terrible.
c) time: indicating the time before and after the moment being spoken:
Yesterday I went to the mall, that It was exhausting.
3 – That, that, those, those and that
a) space: indicating what is far from the speaker and the person being spoken to:
Those people over there are waiting for the bus.
b) text: they are associated with the pronouns este, esta, estos and esta when it resumes two elements already mentioned:
John and Peter are cousins, This one is the son of Ana and that one, son of Mary.
Note that this is used for the last mentioned element, in the case of Pedro, and that for the first, João.
c) time: indicate a time well before what is spoken:
He lived in Bahia, which, at that At the time, it was warmer than today.
Remember: these forms presented have some variations, namely: this, this, this, this, and they follow the same rules.
Important: Almost all these forms can also be reduced to other elements equivalent to those already presented, they are: the (s), the (s), same (a), such (is), proper (a), similar, observe:
These boys are not you that I referred.
we did not expect from him such conduct.
Exactly required O that I didn't need.
