Grammar Reflexive Pronouns   The Reflexive Pronouns are used to reflect the subject or to emphasize something   Personal Subject Reflexive Pronoun Example Singular Singular Singular I Myself I´ve taught myself You Yourself You´ve found yourself He Himself He´s cut himself She Herself She´s drawn herself It Itself It´s bitten itself Plural Plural Plural We Ourselves We´ve brought ourselves You Yourselves You´ve forgiven yourselves They Themselves They´ve made themselves   Now, the examples, as usual. Listen and repeat to them   # Possessive Pronoun Example 01 Myself I´ve asked myself so many questions: who are we? where have we come from? where are we going? Do aliens exist? 02 Yourself You´ve finally registered yourself on that amazing English course at Globalized English School 03 Himself Jonas has killed the rat himself, you know, he´s a brave man 04 Herself Rosana has forgiven herself for having eaten all those chocolate bars 05 Itself The pig has fallen off the table and hurt itself 06 Ourselves We´ve cooked dinner ourselves and we really hope you appreciate it 07 Yourselves You´ve cured yourselves with no drugs, that´s great. This is called self-healing 08 Themselves They´ve divided the money among themselves and no one else 09 Myself I´ve canceled the party myself since I´ll be traveling and it won´t be possible for me to attend 10 Yourself You´ve dropped yourself off the ladder, it´s your own fault 11 Himself He´s protected himself from the heavy rain that was falling down 12 Herself She´s bought herself a fancy coat because she had a salary increase 13 Itself The cat has bitten itself; maybe it´s anxiety 14 Ourselves We´ve helped ourselves to overcome our problems and now we´re fine 15 Yourselves You´ve improved yourselves by studying and doing your best. Congratulations! 16 Themselves They´ve organized themselves in many different groups to solve the problems   Practice Write one phrase for each Reflexive Pronoun (affirmative, interrogative or negative). You must use a verb from this list.   # Reflexive Pron. Verb (Infinitive) Your phrase 1 Myself ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Yourself ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 Himself ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Herself ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 Itself ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6 Ourselves ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7 Yourselves ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 Themselves ______________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________   Globalized English School English in English   2009 - 2010 Globalized English School  - All rights reserved