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5. Reflexive pronouns

When myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves (plural), himself, herself, itself
and themselves are used as objects of a verb and when the subject and the object
are the same person or animal, the pronouns are called reflexive pronouns.
For example,
• He hurt himself.
• You can save yourself.

• We should love ourselves.
• Why does she deceive herself?
• They hid themselves behind a bush.

Reflexive pronouns can also be used after prepositions. For example,
• We should depend on ourselves.

• I spoke to myself.
• Take care of yourselves.
• She hasn’t left anything for herself.

6. Emphatic pronouns

When myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself are used
to emphasise a noun or pronoun, these self-pronouns are called emphasising
pronouns. For example,
• I myself can do it. OR → I can do it myself.
• He himself wrote the answer. OR → He wrote the answer himself.

Note the difference:
• Mala herself met Virat. (Mala, not anyone else, met Virat.)

• Mala met Virat herself. (Mala met Virat, not anyone else.)

7. Reciprocal pronouns

These pronouns are used to show that an action or a feeling is reciprocated.
For example,
• They took care of each other.
• The survivors congratulated one another.

8. Indefinite pronouns

The indefinite pronouns are—

somebody someone something

anybody anyone anything

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