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How to spell those

What it means: Used to point to people or things farther away.

In a sentence: Those apples look delicious. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as thoes or thos.

Same family: this, that, these, they, them. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Those” comes from Old English “thās,” a plural form related to “this.” Over time, English developed a clear pair of demonstratives: “these/those” for plural and “this/that” for singular.

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