Latin Demonstrative – ille, illa, illud

This song reviews the forms of "ille, illa, illud."
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A couple notes:
1) In the examples, I say that "illī" as the masculine, nominative, singular would mean "those men." If illī is dative singular, it would mean to/for that one (where the "one" could be feminine, masculine, or neuter.")
2) If you're reading something and the author is talking about two cities, and there's one city that's close and another that's far, and then the character in the story decides to go to the far one, the author might write "ad illam īre constituit" ("s/he decided to go to that one"), where "illam" is feminine because there's an implied "urbem" which is feminine. Just like we can say "that one" in English and we know what we mean by "one," Latin can use a form of "ille, illa, illud."
3) Another useful function of "ille, illa, illud" is that it can change the subject of the sentence. Ordinarily, if there's no subject explicitly named, the subject stays the same as the previous clause/sentence. So something like: vir ad mare festinat. amīcum videt. ("the man is hurrying toward the ocean. He sees a friend." "the man" is the subject of both sentences.) . At this point, "ille" could be used to refer to the friend and make the friend the subject of the next sentence – ille canem quaerēbat ("he [i.e. the friend] was looking for his dog).

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