Demonstrative Adjective
In French grammar , a demonstrative adjective (or is a subcategory of determinant defined , adding to the updating of the name nucleus , an idea of demonstration: it thus serves to indicate the principal of the phrase (the person, animal or thing we are talking about):
- This flower is a rose.
- In the category of pronouns , the correspondent of the demonstrative adjective is the demonstrative pronoun.
Summary |
Morphology
We distinguish the shapes simple and strong forms.
Basic Shapes
The simple forms of the demonstrative adjective are in the singular: "this" (masculine) and "this" (female) in the plural: 'these' (shape epicene , that is to say, valid for both genders ):
- This garden. This pink. These gardens. These roses.
- The demonstrative "this" becomes "this" before a word beginning with a vowel phonetically:
- This huge garden. This tree. This man.
Forms strengthened
We can add the adverbial particle "will" or "there" (for "that here" and that "now") to build simple forms. These particles are placed at the end of the kernel:
- This rose is more delicate than this rose.
- The stronger forms of the demonstrative adjective to distinguish theoretically allow a close object ("it"), a distant object ("there"), in space or time:
- These days, it is cooler. In those days, life was different.
- However, in practice, especially the stronger forms can distinguish two objects symmetrically:
- Do you prefer this or these glasses these glasses there?
- Nowadays, the forms in "there" are more than one job stream that forms the "it", considered as belonging rather to the register maintained.
- If French has only two degrees of remoteness, the Spanish example has three (este / ese / Aquel), and other languages further: as the Malagasy distinguishes six.
Syntax
Like any determinant , the demonstrative adjective has the syntactic function key to refresh (determine) the phrase that precedes it. However, its role is not exactly the same as it is used in oral or written.
In oral (French)
In oral communication, the demonstrative adjective is a shifter (more precisely, a deictic ), that is to say a tool, with a gesture of support (a look, a facial expression ...), to fully identify the referent (the name is core in this case a representative repository ):
- See this swallow hovering above the tower.
- The demonstrative adjective may also have a negative connotation:
- Who is this woman?
In written
In written communication, the demonstrative adjective transforms the name kernel representing text to identify what we just talked about ( anaphora ) or are about to speak ( cataphora ):
- At the school fair, I had the opportunity to meet with the teacher of Benjamin my youngest. This teacher asked me if I could take care of the photography club of the association.
- The noun phrase "This teacher, representing text, the phrase is an anaphor" the teacher of Benjamin. "
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