Thanks Bre, You helped me a lot.

Let's simplify the differences between "this", "that", and "it". THIS: indicates something or someone is NEAR you. Ex: Whose dog is this? (A dog is NEAR you and you want to know who the owner is.) THAT: indicates DISTANCE. Ex: Look at that girl over there. (You're telling someone to look at a girl that is a bit of DISTANCE from you.) IT: refers to non-human objects (like chairs, animals, liquids) and is a pronoun that replaces a noun. Ex: Taste this milk and let me know if you like it. ("It" refers to the milk.) Ex: I have the chair. Where do you want me to put it? ("It" refers to the chair.) THEN: Indicates what's "next". Ex: I went to school all day, then went to a party. (I went to school. Next, after school, I went to a party.) There's a lot more to know about these words, but I'm limited on space. Feel free to message me with any questions. :)

Okay. This is a bit tricky. Say you have an object called a xaxxrix. Xaxxrixes are nothing particularly rare or unique, so you can expect there to be more than one of them. Of course, "xaxxrix" is a really weird word to write! So you make it simple and just refer to the xaxxrix by a pronoun. All of those words are pronouns. The way to distinguish them is by both specificity and possession. Do you currently possess the xaxxrix? That is, are you holding it? Let's say you do possess it, and you're talking to a friend about it. "Look at this!" you say. "This" is the pronoun used to refer to an object that you currently have. It can also be used as an article, like so: "Look at this xaxxrix!" Both of these sentences are fine and mean the same thing. But the xaxxrix falls out of your hand. You no longer possess it. "Pick it up, please," you say to your friend. When an object is singular and not in your possession, you use "it". The friend doesn't pick it up fast enough, and now it rolls into a whole pile of red xaxxrixes. Your xaxxrix is blue, so you can notice it easily enough, but it's still in a whole jumble of xaxxrixes. "Which one?" the friend replies. "That one!" you say, pointing to the blue xaxxrix. "That is my xaxxrix!" The pronoun "that" is used as a definite pronoun, to impart a degree of uniqueness to it. This is what I mean by specificity. So, to shorten the explanation: If you are currently in possession of an object, the pronoun to use is "this" (and "these" if you have many objects). If you do not have the object in your possession, and it is a unique object, you can call it "it" (because there's no confusion about what IT is). If you do not have the object AND it's part of a large group of objects, you say "that" to differentiate it, the same way you would say "an apple" to mean any sort of apple, or "THE apple" to mean a specific one (and if there are many objects you want to point out, you use "those").