Demonstrative Pronouns and Adjectives

The weather has been very hot in this part of the state.

Fruit is my favorite food during this time of year.

That chair beside the table was made by my grandfather.

Those who wish to go to the beach should follow this path.

These basketball sneakers were made by a local company.

The town, Genoa, was known to French weavers as Genes.

There, a cotton cloth similar to denim was used to make work clothes.

An immigrant tailor, Levi Strauss, came to San Francisco during the 1850s.

He realized that the gold miners quickly wore out their trousers.

Strauss made overalls for the miners from his heavy-duty fabric.

After a few years, he replaced the canvas with denim.

Strauss added copper rivets to reinforce the seams at the pockets.

He used blue fabric so that stains would not show.

The San Francisco denim became quite famous.

In 1935, a fashion magazine ran an advertisement for them.