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Too general to deal with comprehensively, Tom. 'This' (along with 'that', 'these' and 'those') is deictic, referring to a spatial position in the contextual world outside of the sentence. 'It' is a non-spatial-referential (my term!) pronoun.
Your red words are fine.
PS: 'vs' not 'via'.
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| Thu Sep 06, 2007 15:35 pm "This" via "It" |
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Too general to deal with comprehensively, Tom. 'This' (along with 'that', 'these' and 'those') is deictic, referring to a spatial position in the contextual world outside of the sentence. 'It' is a non-spatial-referential (my term!) pronoun.
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Many thanks, MM
...but, to be honest, I need some more light on what you wrote. Could you please give one or two examples?
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| Fri Sep 07, 2007 0:44 am "This" via "It" |
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This is a pencil -- The speaker must be pointing to the pencil, or otherwise indicating it in some way, in reality outside the sentence.
It is a pencil -- the pencil need have no location and in fact no specific existence.
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