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| Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns |
| A pronoun that refers to a subject and directs the verb action back onto the subject is reflexive. |
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| A pronouns that emphasizes another pronoun or a noun is intensive. |
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| Examples of Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns: |
| itself themsleves |
| myself himself |
| herself yourselves |
| ourselves yourself |
| Example sentences using reflexive pronouns: |
| 1. We did not think of ourselves as greedy at the time. 2. We will punish ourselves for our mistake. 3. By itself, the tree looked lonely. |
| Example Sentences using intensive pronouns: |
| 1. Two bucks says that he did not make that himself. 2. I myself decided not to go to the zoo that day. 2. Harriet painted the fence this morning all by herself. |
| A trick to deciding whether a pronoun is reflexive or intesive is to take it out of the sentence and see if the meaning is changed. If it is not, then you have yourself an intensive noun.. |
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| compliments of schoolhouse rock |