Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

​Often reflexive pronouns reflect the action back to the subject.

• Ron's parents blamed themselves when he went to prison.

• My three-year-old daughter can dress herself.

Reflexive pronouns

The subject does the action, but also receives it.

• I am teaching myself to play the piano. 

• My three-year-old daughter can dress herself.

Reflexive pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

Or, we use by + reflexive pronoun to explain the subject did it by themself / themselves​.

• ​He ate the whole pie by himself.

• ​They cleaned up the whole room by themselves.

Or, we can use it to put emphasis on the subject doing something alone.

• The Grinch himself carved the roast beast!

• ​Ourselves

• ​Yourselves

• Themselves​

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Plural

• Myself

• Yourself

• Herself

• Himself​

• Itself​

​Singular

All reflexive pronouns​

Reflexive pronouns​

​We use a reciprocal pronoun when two or more people, things, or groups

are doing the same thing toward each other at the same time.

• John and Mary looked at each other.

• ​Bob and Cynthia helped one another with the homework.

There are only two reciprocal pronouns in English, each other and one another.

John and Mary looked at each other.

• Jennifer and Ellen babysat each other’s children. 

• When my cousin and I visit each other, we stay at one another’s homes.

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