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Reflexive Pronouns

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Reflexive Pronouns

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3. Elementary

What are reflexive pronouns? When to use them? Alex will explain.

🪞 Reflexive pronouns

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Which sentence has a reflexive pronoun in it❓

Reflexive pronouns are pronouns that 'reflect back' on the subject. This means that the person or thing that carries out an action also receives it.

Example 👉 I saw myself in the mirror - Subject → who sees? I see - Object → who do I see? I see me; I see myself

📝 List of reflexive pronouns

I → myself you (sing.) → yourself he → himself she → herself it → itself we → ourselves you (pl.) → yourselves they → themselves

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True or false❓ The singular and plural pronouns have the same form.

👉 In the singular forms you add -self, in the plural -selves.

▶️ Quiz 1

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John sent ____ a copy.

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Anna blames ____ for not having done anything.

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They’re old enough, they can take care of ____.

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Even though she’s nearly a hundred, my grandmother still dresses ____.

✊ Intensive pronouns

Sometimes we use reflexive pronouns to emphasise the subject.

The difference to regular reflexive pronouns is that you can remove the intensive pronoun from the sentence and it will still make sense:

Example 👉 I need to do this myself → ✅ I need to do this.

▶️ Quiz 2

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Intensive pronoun or reflexive pronoun❓ Did you buy these tomatoes? No, I grew them myself.

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Intensive pronoun or reflexive pronoun❓ We couldn’t afford a decorator so we painted the flat ourselves.

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Intensive pronoun or reflexive pronoun❓ Please be careful with that knife! You’ll hurt yourselves.

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Intensive pronoun or reflexive pronoun❓ He needs to do the work himself.

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🪞 Reflexive pronouns

Reflexive pronouns are pronouns that 'reflect back' on the subject. This means that the person or thing that carries out an action also receives it.

📝 List of reflexive pronouns

👉 In the singular forms you add -self, in the plural -selves.

▶️ Quiz 1

✊ Intensive pronouns

The difference to regular reflexive pronouns is that you can remove the intensive pronoun from the sentence and it will still make sense:

▶️ Quiz 2

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