hello welcome to ease English at home YouTube channel today I'm gonna teach
you how to use reflexive pronouns
reflexive pronouns that's what we're gonna focus on today but let's start by
remembering the subject and object pronouns we use subject pronouns to
refer to the person doing the action and we use object pronouns to refer to the
person affected by the action so object pronouns always go after a verb remember
like I can help you I is the subject pronoun
and you is the object pronoun and it goes off the divert help help you yes
now what about reflexive pronouns well the form changes completely
we can look at reflexive pronouns in two groups singular ones and plural ones
right so let's start with the singular ones a subject pronoun becomes myself
right and we becomes ourselves which is a plural form right and you if it's
singular yourself if it's plural yourselves and the next one day becomes
themselves and he becomes himself she becomes herself and it changes form
and it becomes itself what about the meaning how does it change let's study
in more details with examples here well we use reflexive pronouns when the
subject and the object of the verb is the same so here you are reflecting back
on the subject for example ouch I cut myself as I was making salad I cut
myself so the act of cutting affected who me that's why I use myself so that's
the first use and the second one we use it for emphasis to make the
meaning stronger so here the reflexive pronoun is in the role of an intensifier
so let's have a look at the example I made this salad myself so here this is
making the meaning stronger I can take this out of the sentence right it
doesn't change the sentence much so if I want to stress put more emphasis I add
the reflexive pronoun there the last one we use it with by two main alone or read
out any help so this one is a bit different from the others right let's
have a look at the example I made this salad by myself it means nobody helped
me yes I made this salad alone
are you ready to practice now look at the pictures and read the sentences
don't forget to choose the correct reflexive pronoun with me let's go
number one she is looking at looking at herself in the mirror so she's the one
who is looking and she sees herself she's looking at herself in the mirror
number two they are enjoying themselves very good themselves at the party number
three he caught himself as he was shaving yes so he is the one doing it
and he's the one who is affected he caught himself number four I made this
cake myself so here I am making the meaning stronger with the reflexive
pronoun number five she is getting dressed by myself or herself she so we
have to say by herself so in this case the meaning is this nobody is helping
her she is doing it she is getting dressed by herself she's
getting dressed alone okay read out any help number six they are
helping they are helping who they're helping themselves of course and the
next one I introduced myself to the team yes I introduced myself number eight I
didn't do this project by myself we did it as a team yeah we did it as a team so
I didn't do it by myself good job everyone are you ready to
practice further this time I want you to find the mistake in each sentence there
is a problem with the pronoun in each one so let's go
number one yourself can take a shower and get dressed quickly right so what's
the problem here you cannot start a sentence get a reflexive pronoun we need
a subject pronoun here right so you need to say you instead of this one you can
take a shower and get dressed quickly right okay number two she is enjoying
myself on a boat trip to die who she she's enjoying
yes you need to reflect back here right she's enjoying herself not myself right
and number three they can go home by themself huh there is a problem with the
form here look themself is supposed to be plural here you need to say them
selves yes themselves good number four can you teach herself how to play the
guitar can you teach herself no reflect back
here again you teach yourself not herself right
number five and bake this cake by herself no this is supposed to be plural
right herself her self this is the correct form good now number six do you
sometimes flatter you do you sometimes flatter yourself you're reflecting back
okay not you yourself good and the last one my brother is very different from my
sister and myself no my brother is very different from my sister and me we need
an object pronoun here everybody okay I hope this was helpful let's have a look
at today's key words and phrases we learned reflexive pronouns and how to
use them so let's remember myself ourselves yourself as a singular one
yourself as a plural one themselves himself/herself and itself we use them
when the subject and the object of the verb is the same person
for example I've burned myself we also use them for emphasis I cleaned my room
myself so here we can take out the reflexive pronoun and the meaning stays
the same and the last one we use them with by two mean alone or without any
help I cleaned my room by myself which means nobody helped me
thank you for watching you can find the practice files for this lesson on the
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