Reflexive pronouns.

1.Reflexive pronouns have the categories of person, number,and genderin the third person singular.

	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
SINGULAR:	myself	yourself¹	himself, herself, itself
PLURAL:	ourselves	yourselves	themselves

¹ The archaic pronoun of the second person singular is thyself.

2. Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject of the sentence in which they are used, indicating that the action performed by the doer passes back to him or is associated with him.

In the sentence they are usually used as direct objects.

In that moment of emotion he betrayed the Forsyte in him — forgot himself,

his interests, his property — was capable of almost anything... (Galsworthy)

(OBJECT)

Reflexive pronouns may be used as predicatives.

When she came back she was herselfagain. (Hardy) (PREDICATIVE)

Reflexive pronouns preceded by a preposition may be used as indirect prepositional objects, as attributes and as adverbial modifiers.

He could not see that it would be better to make her feel that she was

competing with herself...(Dreiser) (PREPOSITIONAL INDIRECT

OBJECT)

“I fancied you looked a little downcast when you came in,” she ventured to

observe, anxious to keep away from the subject of herself.(Hardy)

(ATTRIBUTE)

If June did not like this, she could have an allowance and live by herself.

(Galsworthy) (ADVERBIAL MODIFIER OF MANNER)

Reflexive pronouns may be used to form the reflexive voice (in this case reflexive pronouns are structural words):

Undressing again, she washed herself intensively... (Galsworthy)

And then I dressed myselfand came away to find you. (Hardy)

Sometimes reflexive pronouns are used emphatically:

Moreover, Soames himselfdisliked the thought of that. (Galsworthy)

She was never idle, it seemed to him, and he envied her now that he himself

was idle nearly all his time. (Galsworthy)

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