Form and
example
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Myself
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I bought
myself a new T-shirt.
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yourself
(singular)
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Be
careful, you will hurt yourself.
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himself
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He built
the house himself
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herself
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She
taught herself to swim.
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itself
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The dog
took the newspaper itself
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ourselves
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We
enjoyed ourselves.
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yourselves
(plural)
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You read
the books yourselves.
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themselves
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Anne and
Mike took the pictures themselves.
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You can use
a reflexive pronoun to emphasize that the subject did the action.
Click on these links and do the exercises:
http://inglesnanet.com/grammar/reflex.htm
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-2273.php
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/reflexive-pronouns-exercise1.html
http://www.english-4u.de/refl_pronouns_ex1.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/pronouns/self_each_other.htm
If we say
that John writes to Mary and that Mary writes to John, we are talking about a
reciprocal action. This sort of actions are expressed by each other or one
another:
They write
to each other / one another once a month.
When the
action expressed by the subject falls on other people or things, we employ
personal object pronouns: He loves her. However, she may not love him; but if
we say that he and Mary love each other, they are both in love. John loves
himself means that John loves John, that is to say, himself refers back to
John.
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