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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN, HUMANAS

Y TECNOLOGÍASLANGUAGE SCHOOL

GRAMMAR VI

NAME: oCauja VanessaoGonzález FranciscooErazo MigueloPérez Evelyn

SEMESTER: Sixth

March – August 2015

A reflexive pronoun is a type of pronoun that is preceded by the adverb, adjective, pronoun, or noun to which it refers, so long as that antecedent is located

within the same clause.

WHAT ARE REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS?

THE FORMS OF REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

PERSONAL PRONOUN REFLEXIVE PRONOUN

I Myself

You YourselfHe HimselfShe HerselfIt ItselfWe OurselvesYou YourselvesThey Themselves

WHEN TO USE REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS ?

1.-When the subject and the object refer to the same person or thing.

2. As the object of a preposition, when the object of the preposition refers to the same person or thing as the subject of the verb in the same clause.

• That man is talking to himself.

3. When you want to emphasize that someone did something without any help from anyone else.

• They ate all the food themselves. (No-one else had any.)

4. You use reflexive pronouns with ‘by’ to say: That someone does something without help from other people.

• She was sure she could manage by herself.

5. You use reflexive pronouns in some common expressions.

• Behave yourselves! (¡Compórtate bien!)

6.-You use reflexive pronouns for politeness.

• The National Trust is a charity depending on the support of people like yourself. (or … people like you.)

• Most transitive verbs can take a reflexive pronoun. I blame myself for not paying attention. He introduced himself to me.

• The subject is known as the antecedent of the reflexive pronoun.

I feel nervous. I can´t relax.

You must try and concentrate.(not concentrate yourself)

 WHEN DON´T USE REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

We don´t normally use a reflexive pronoun after washed/shave/dress/

feel/relax/concentrate/meet because those verbs describe actions that people normally

do to themselves.