REFLEXIVE AND RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS

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REFLEXIVE AND RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS
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REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

• Use reflexive pronouns when the subject and
  object are the same people or things.
• Sub. obj.
• She looks at herself in the mirror everyday.
• Sub. obj.
• Clean after yourself.
• App. 3 pg A-2

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• Use reflexive pronouns to emphasize a noun
• Sharon herself said that she didnt like rice.
• By a reflexive pronoun (alone or without help)
• I did my homework by myself.

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IMPERATIVE SENTECES REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

• Imperative sentences reflexive use
• Use yourself when the subject is singular
• Dont push yourself too hard.
• Yourselves when subject is plural
• Dont push yourselves so hard.
• What is the subject in an imperative sentences?

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RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS

• Use the reciprocal pronouns when the subject and
  object refer to the same people and there is a 2
  way relationship
• They met each other in a party.
• They communicate with each other through e-mail.
• Grilsel, Isolina, Sandra and Marta help one
  another with the English homework.
• They love each other very much.

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• Reciprocal pronouns have possessive forms, each
  others, one anothers
• The students wrote each others email addresses.
• They decided to visit one anothers families
  during the summer.

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Reciprocal pronouns and plural reflexive pronouns
have different meaning

• Juan and Maria did each others homework.

• Juan and Maria did their homework by themselves.

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Exercises

• Reflexive Pronouns
• http//members.home.net/englishzone/grammar/reflex
  01.html

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• Created by
• Claudia Bedoya-Rose, Ed.M.
• Gateway Community College
• Spring 2000