Ch 10 · Lesson 11Spanish · Chapter 10 · Lesson 11 · Grammar primer
Demonstrative pronouns
Prescribed by the AQA specification.
The short version
Use the neuter when there is no noun to agree with
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, and point at an idea, a whole situation or a thing you cannot yet name, and they never change for gender or number. Asking about an unidentified object is ¿ ?, never ¿ ? They never take a written accent either, because there is no adjective form to tell them apart from.
This one is just
¿ ? .
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Drop the noun and the demonstrative stands alone, agreeing with the noun you mean: ¿ ? . There is . That one is by the listener and over there; the one that is , not a demonstrative.
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