From the course: Grammar Foundations
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Intensive and reflexive pronouns
From the course: Grammar Foundations
Intensive and reflexive pronouns
- [Instructor] The self words myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, and themselves play two roles in sentences. They can be intensive pronouns you use to add emphasis to a sentence, and they can be reflexive pronouns you use to refer to someone you already mentioned in the sentence. Think of intensive pronouns as intensifying your meaning. I baked the scones myself. If you take out the pronoun myself, the sentence means the same thing, it just doesn't have that extra oomph the stronger emphasis on your doing it alone. Think of reflexive pronouns as being like a mirror, showing the reflection of the person who was mentioned earlier in the sentence. I see myself opening a coffee shop someday. Maria treated herself to a latte. The most common mistake with these pronouns is to use the word "myself" when you should use the word "me", as in "Send the report to Aiden and myself." That pronoun is in the…
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