Can you please read this for me and tell me if it's right. I don't know if it is suppose to be those or these. Thank you for your help.
No matter what topic is being discussed, the first thing that people look for is the positve benefits.These benefits provide humans with a sense or relief because they know that those benefits could be helpful to them in the long run. Those negative benefits could cause humans undesirous amounts of distress, so positve benefits are a plus.
Hmmm. So when we discuss HIV infection, we are looking for positive benefits? That is what your paragraph says.
You are writing nothing new here. You need specifics.
What is your REAL topic?
Sure, I can help you with that. To determine whether it should be "those" or "these" in the passage you provided, we need to consider the context and the proximity of the benefits being discussed.
In this case, the sentence states, "The first thing that people look for is the positive benefits." Since the benefits are being referred to as the first thing people look for, it suggests that they are within close proximity or immediate in some way. Therefore, it would be more appropriate to use "these" instead of "those."
Rewriting the passage with the correct pronoun:
"No matter what topic is being discussed, the first thing that people look for is the positive benefits. These benefits provide humans with a sense of relief because they know that these benefits could be helpful to them in the long run. Those negative benefits could cause humans undesirable amounts of distress, so positive benefits are a plus."
By using "these" instead of "those," it helps maintain the consistency and clarifies that the positive benefits are the ones being referred to as immediately significant to people.