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Grammar
Refl exive Pronouns
Read the following sentence.
‘Quick Dorothy! Run for the cellar! Save yourself!’
Yourself is used as a reflexive pronoun here. When the subject in a sentence is also the
receiver of the action (direct object), we use reflexive pronouns to replace the direct object.
(You) save yourself.
Words like myself, himself, herself, itself and ourselves are reflexive pronouns.
subject reflexive pronoun
I myself
you yourself (if we are talking about one person); yourselves (if we are
talking about more than one person)
he, Rishi, father himself
she, Rita, aunt herself
it, the crab itself
we ourselves
they themselves
Use the correct refl exive pronouns in these sentences.
1. The children are looking after ________________ in the camp.
2. Abhay told ________________ to be courageous.
3. I bought an ice-cream for ________________.
4. Manas accidentally hurt ________________ with the razor.
5. Martha forced ________________ to go to the swimming classes.
6. They only think about ________________ and don’t care about others.
7. ‘Go, see ________________ in the mirror,’ Mother said angrily.
8. We taught ________________ how to ride a bicycle.
9. The students were satisfied with ________________ for cleaning the class.
10. My father blamed ________________ for losing his mobile phone.
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