Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Why 'that' not 'this'
Why do we say 'That's great.' not 'This is great.'?
Top answer
Hi, We say 'that' if we feel the thing is not close to us, physically or conceptually. We say 'this' if we do feel it is close. Clive
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Hi,
We say 'that' if we feel the thing is not close to us, physically or conceptually.
We say 'this' if we do feel it is close.
Clive
We say 'that' if we feel the thing is not close to us, physically or conceptually.
We say 'this' if we do feel it is close.
Clive
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