hello everyone how are you today this is Marc I'm doing great
thanks for asking he forced himself to learn English fast - the children went out
and bought themselves candy - I myself wrote this specific lesson for you all
the couple cooked for themselves - students like yourselves still find this
grammar point hard - in this lesson we're going to look at reflexive pronouns so
stay tuned - that's right reflexive pronouns when do we use reflexive pronouns -
when you wish to show that the object or the indirect object of a verb is the same
thing or person as the subject this is the main point of reflexive pronouns
reflexive pronouns are for example for I is myself for you is yourself or
yourselves if it's plural - if you are you and your friend for example
yourselves he himself she herself it itself we ourselves okay
we said that you changes to yourselves because it's plural they themselves so
when do we use reflexive pronouns well the first most important point I've already
told you I repeat it to show that the object of a verb is the same person or
thing as the subject of the verb so like my example he forced
himself to learn English fast - so himself is the same as the subject of this verb
force to force so he himself another example - the lady introduced herself to
her new employer herself is the lady is the same subject right the lady herself
so introduce is the verb - we also use reflexive pronouns to emphasize that the
indirect object is the same as the subject of the verb if you don't know
what is an indirect object or an object you may click here to find out and watch
the lesson - the children went out and bought themselves candy themselves here
is the indirect object because I ask who bought candy themselves so themselves
is who the children the subject the children themselves let's take a look at
the other example she saved her money and paid herself the debt so herself who
pay or paid the debt herself who is herself she so she is the same as the
indirect object now I'm going to erase this and I'm going to look at three
other cases where we use reflexive pronouns yes we're back with reflexive
pronouns the third point use reflexive pronouns in addition to nouns or personal pronouns
personal pronouns are I you he she it we you they this is used in order to
emphasize who or what you are referring to let's look at my example I myself so
I myself wrote this specific lesson for you all
another example he himself called me after the meeting so you can see that
himself and myself emphasize the personal pronoun number four use
reflexive pronouns after a preposition if the subject and the object of a
preposition refer to the same person and the clause does not have a direct object
maybe it is better if I showed you the example the couple cooked for
preposition for who for themselves themselves here is the reflexive pronoun
of the couple the couple are two people they they cooked for themselves so the
couple cooked for themselves themselves here again is the reflexive pronoun now
the other example she was ashamed of preposition of herself for being late
herself here is the reflexive pronoun and it attaches to she the personal
pronoun and here is the preposition mentioned in the description of
number four okay and you can see that these two
sentences don't have a direct object right they don't have a direct object
like I said before if you want to watch a lesson on indirect or direct object
you may click here now for number five use reflexive pronouns rather than
personal pronouns of personal pronouns are like I you see he the ones
that I mentioned before as the object of the preposition for emphasis again for
emphasis especially in casual conversation just
like my introductory example students like yourselves and here is plural
yourselves because they are not just one but many so students like yourselves
still find this grammar point hard this grammar point
now the other example that I wrote the speech ended with a conversation between
himself so somebody himself and an old friend of
mine and here we have himself and somebody referring to he obviously he
and an old friend of mine so if you wish to post your own example of a reflexive
pronoun or a question or a comment about the lesson you may do so under this
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