CHAPTERFOURWe form reflexive pronouns with self or selves
3-1For 1st and 2nd persons: possessive adjective + self/selvesmy + self myselfour + selves ourselvesyour + self yourselfyour + selves yourselvesFor 3rd persons: object personal pronoun + self/selveshim + self himselfher + self herselfit + self itselfthem + selves themselvesWe usually use a reflexive pronoun as an object or complement to refer to the same thing as the subject
3-2The old woman fell over and hurt herself
We should not feel proud of ourselves
We can also use a reflexive pronoun to emphasize a noun phrase, or to mean ‘without help’
I myself do not like the picture
(I, not someone else)They wrote the report themselves
(without help) Sometimes we use a reflexive pronoun to make the meaning clear
She bo