Choosing the Correct Demonstrative Pronoun

Let's figure out which demonstrative pronoun correctly completes this sentence: Blank apples here are fresh and delicious.

First, we look at the word following the blank. The word is apples. Since apples is plural, we must use a plural demonstrative.

This means we can immediately eliminate options C and D, that and this, because they are both singular.

Now we choose between these and those. We look for a clue about distance. The word here indicates that the objects are close to the speaker.