Intensive or Reflexive Pronouns

Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns

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Type of Pronouns

1. Personal Pronouns

2. Possessive Pronouns

3. Relative Pronouns

4. Reflexive Pronouns

5. Intensive Pronouns

6. Indefinite Pronouns

7. Demonstrative Pronouns

8. Interrogative Pronouns

1. Personal Pronouns: take the place of people or things

eg: I, you, he, she, we, it, they, me

2. Possessive Pronouns: personal pronouns that indicates the possession of something/owner of something

eg: my, your, his, her, (mine, yours, theirs- stand alone and not followed by a noun)

3. Relative Pronouns: use to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun [to add more information]

eg: who, whom, which, that

4. Reflexive Pronouns: when a subject perform an action on itself, the sentence use reflexive pronouns after the verb

eg: myself, himself, herself, themselves

5. Intensive Pronouns: similar to reflexive pronouns but have different function in a sentence (only to add emphasis)

eg: yourself, myself [I told Ain that you yourself will bake the cake]

6. Indefinite Pronouns: refer to people or things but they don't have a specific person or thing as a reference.

eg: some, anyone, everything

7. Demonstrative Pronouns: point out a person or thing

eg: this, that, these, those

8. Interrogative Pronouns: pronouns to ask questions

eg: who, whom, whose, what, which

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1. Ain will be holding _________ birthday party this weekend.

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2. The girls at the bench are eating ________ lunch.

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3. When I look over at _________, I noticed that he was reading a book.

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4. The books on the shelf belong to Amin and his friends. They are ___________.

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5. __________ umbrella did she take?

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6. _____________ one of the books is your favorite?

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7. Look at __________ birds up there in the tree.

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8. I bought the dress yesterday. It is _________.

Multiple Choice

By _____ was the book written?

• who

• whom

Multiple Choice

Does anyone know _____ hid the remote?

• whom

• who

Multiple Choice

_____ of the students passed the test?

• Who

• Which

Multiple Choice

_____ did you expect to meet?

• Whom

• Who

Multiple Choice

_____ started public opinion surveys?

• Who

• Whom

Multiple Choice

_____ will help decorate the gym for the costume party?

• Who

• Whom

Multiple Choice

_____ did you call?

• Whom

• Who

Multiple Choice

With _____ are you going?

• whom

• who

Multiple Choice

_____ is going to be the costume judge?

• Who

• Whom

Multiple Choice

Which sentence has an incorrect pronoun usage?

• I am going camping with my family next weekend.

• Me and my friends ate cotton candy at the carnival.

• Daniel fed his dog, and then he took it for a walk.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence has an incorrect pronoun usage?

• Mr. Morris took my classmates and I to recess.

• We baked cupcakes last night, but we did not eat them yet.

• Today is my sister's birthday, but I forgot to buy her a gift.

Match

Match the following

• A person, place, thing, or an idea

• Words that describe or modify other words in a sentence

• Words or a group of words that modify verbs

• Show action or state-of-being

• Words that replace nouns in sentences in order to avoid repetition

Noun

Adjective

Adverb

Verb

Pronoun

• Noun

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Verb

• Pronoun

Intensive and reflexive pronouns are formed by adding –self or –selves to certain personal and possessive pronouns.

Myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves are the intensive and reflexive pronouns.

An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun already named.

• Ex. I will do it myself.

• Ex. He himself paid for the book.

Intensive pronouns can be removed from the sentence without changing the meaning.

• Ex. I will do it.

• Ex. He paid for the book.

A reflexive pronoun is used as the direct object, indirect object, or the object of the preposition of a sentence.

• This means that the person or thing performing the action is also receiving the action.

• Ex. We consider ourselves responsible enough to have a pet. (direct object)

• Ex. They bought themselves a book on pet care. (indirect object)

• Ex. Henry takes care of his pets by himself. (object of the preposition)

Never use intensive or reflexive pronouns as the subject of a sentence.

Ex. Roy and myself read a story. (It should be “Roy and I read a story.”)

Identify the underlined pronoun as either intensive or reflexive.

Multiple Choice

I gave myself a manicure last night.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

The singer herself wrote the music and lyrics for the song.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

The cat itself caught the mouse in the basement.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

They bought themselves new clothes.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

He himself read the book.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

He read the book to himself.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

When you arrive, please let yourself into the house.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

We ourselves baked a cake from scratch.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

They solved the riddle by themselves.

• intensive

• reflexive

Multiple Choice

John made himself lunch.

• intensive

• reflexive