that, -lla, -llo (from lat. eccum , here, e ille, illa, illud ; except for that , it can have a graphic accent when it is pronoun; that it is the neutral form, it is only used as pron and lacks pl.) 1 adj. and pron. dem. It serves to point out something that is far from both the speaker and the person to whom it is spoken: That mountain . It also serves to refer to a thing already mentioned, but not immediately before, and, particularly, to make a difference, by referring again to two things already mentioned, between the one named first and the one named after: We had a car and a motorcycle: this one spoiled and that one without gasoline . Sometimes, that replaces the article before a relative sentence, especially after a preposition: It was in a different place from the one in which I had left it . Relative. You can also replace it in front of a name that carries a determination, for example in the form of an adjective: I do not care about those things that are foreign to us . But this construction is rare, and unusual in spoken language. pron. That is used to refer with reluctance to something that does not want to name: Hey, what about that? (for example, certain money that the person to whom it is spoken owes the speaker). 2 m That is used in informal language to designate a certain attractiveness or interest, which can not be defined with precision: She is not pretty, but she has one. V. throwing out that mouth, as one says, at that time, it seemed like that, those powders bring these muds. . Usage notes The use of that followed by the preposition of , that is as partitive, is considered Gallicism. Therefore, it should be said those students who were not in the previous class and not those of the students who were not in the previous class . However, when instead of a noun following that a pronoun, the non-use of this partitive construction forces us to look for a completely different construction: instead of those of you who want to leave, you would have to say yes Some of you want to leave. Therefore, in similar cases, the use of that with the partitive is very frequent.
