What’s this?
Language Focus
This / These ; It / They (plurals)
This is a laptop.
These are laptops.
What’s this?
It’s a flash drive
What are these?
They’re flash drives
Usamos this no singular:
- What‘s this? (o que é isso?)
- This is a laptop (isso é um notebook)
Usamos these no plural:
- What are these?
- These are flash drives.
Podemos substituir this / these por um pronome correspodente: it (singular) ou they (plural):
- What is this?
- It‘s a laptop
- What are these?
- They‘re flash drives.