What is the Difference Between Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns?
What is the Difference Between Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns?
Bonjour. Could you help us with the difference between intensive and reflexive pronouns? Here’s an exercise we came across:
"Circle the correct pronoun and decide if it’s intensive or reflexive: She herself / herself baked the cake for her family."
"Circle the correct pronoun and decide if it’s intensive or reflexive: She herself / herself baked the cake for her family."
Jean-Luck_Dupont
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Hello!
Reflexive pronouns: The subject and object are the same (e.g., "She baked the cake for herself").
Intensive pronouns: Emphasize the subject (e.g., "She herself baked the cake").
In your sentence:
"She herself / herself baked the cake for her family."
The correct pronoun is "herself" (intensive pronoun), because it emphasizes that she, not someone else, baked the cake.
So, it's intensive.
Hope this helps!
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