Personal Reflexive: Meaning and Example
Grammar – Pronouns – Types – Personal Reflexive
Personal Pronouns
I, we, you, they are called personal pronouns because they stand for the three persons.
- First-person- I, we, me, us, mine, ours are the first person.
- Second person- You, yours are second person.
- Third person- He, she, it, they, him are third person.
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Examples of Personal Pronouns
I like green tea / Sam helped me.
Do you like green tea? / Sam loves you.
She runs fast. / Did Tom beat him?
He is clever. / Does Mark know her?
We went to Church. / Robin drove us.
Do you need a table for four?/ Did James and Shelly beat you at doubles?
They played doubles. / James and Shelly beat them.
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Sometimes we refer to a person, or an animal as She /her, and he/him. If the animal is a pet.
This is our dog Roby. He‘s a Pomeranian.
The Titanic was a remarkable ship, but she sank on her first voyage.
My first vehicle was a Mini and I treated her like my wife.
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Examples for the first person
If a student needs help, he or she should
approach the teacher.
If a student needs help, he should approach the teacher.
If a student needs help, they should approach the teacher.
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We generally use “It” to introduce a remark:
It is good to have a gala time sometimes.
It is important to take care.
It is difficult to find a place to live.
Is it normal to see them together in class?
It didn’t take long to stay here.
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We often use it to talk about the weather, temperature, time and distance:
It is windy.
It will probably be foggy tomorrow.
Is it ten o’clock yet?
It is 80 kilometers from here to California.
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A personal reflexive pronoun is a pronoun used as an object that cites to the same person or thing as the subject for, e.g., from the sentence given above:
She looked at herself in the mirror, here herself is the reflexive pronoun as it cites to the person as the subject, i.e., she is herself.
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The commonly used reflexive pronouns are listed below:
myself: me (the speaker)
yourself: you as a singular (single person the speaker)
itself: it (a thing or an animal)
himself: him (a masculine)
herself: her (a feminine)
ourselves: us (the speaker and others together)
yourselves: you as a plural (the speaker)
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