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Jul 6, 2012

Reflexive Pronouns - Each other


Form and example
Myself
I bought myself a new T-shirt.
yourself (singular)
Be careful, you will hurt yourself.
himself
He built the house himself
herself
She taught herself to swim.
itself
The dog took the newspaper itself
ourselves
We enjoyed ourselves.
yourselves (plural)
You read the books yourselves.
themselves
Anne and Mike took the pictures themselves.

You can use a reflexive pronoun to emphasize that the subject did the action.

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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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