Peculiarities of The Use of The Reflexive Pronouns

1. Peculiarities of The Use of The Reflexive Pronouns English Grammar EPh-13 Natalya Dumanska

2. The object of the individual task: reflexive pronouns.The subject: peculiarities of the use of the reflexive pronouns.The aim: to find out peculiarities of the use of the reflexive pronouns.The task: using the scientific literature, to show the topicality of this problem, to study in which cases do we use reflexive pronouns.

3. Reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that shows that the action of the verb is occurring to the subject of the sentence. e.g. I washed myself e.g. He looks at himself in the mirror.

4. Reflexive pronouns have the categories of person, number and gender in the third person singular.

5. e.g. John taught himself. e.g. She tried to claw and wriggle herself up the eight-inch riser to the second step but could’nt make it. (p.30) The use of the reflexive pronouns:1.We use reflexive pronouns as the direct object or indirect object of the verb when we want to say that the object is the same person or thing as the subject of the verb in the same clause:

6. e.g. I blame myself for not paying attention. e.g. In a shy but gentlemanly way, this tall, slim man introduced himself and began the usual preliminaries of a job interview. ( p. 391) 2.Most transitive verbs can take a reflexive pronoun:

7. e.g. He is doing his homework himself. 3.We can use reflexive pronouns at the end of a clause to emphasize that someone did something without any help from anyone else:

8. e.g. I myself have never read the book. e.g. … I myself one of the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. (p.213) 4.We use reflexive pronouns after nouns or pronouns to emphasize the person or thing that we are referring to:

9. e.g.I do not know what’s the matter with me. I’m not myself today. e.g. He heard the sound, felt the blow, felt himself falling forward, and his hand closed on the living-room curtains, the shards and fragments of glass showering on to the floor. ( p. 78 ) 5.After be and related verbs such as feel, look, seem reflexive pronouns can be used to describe feelings, emotions and states.

10. e.g. He carried this buckets by himself. e.g. I got a herd of over a hundred of a canyon by myself and drove them down to the river with the aid of one dog. (p.133) 6.We can use reflexive pronouns with “ by ” to say that someone does something without any help from other people:

11. 7.We can also use “ on my own”, on your own, and so on, to say that someone is alone or does something without any help:e.g. We were in the park on our own.

12. 8.We can use “ all” for emphasis:e.g. Did you put those shelves up all by yourself?

13. We don’t use reflexive pronouns: 1. There are a number of verbs in English with which we rarely or never use reflexive pronouns. They include : adapt, behave, complain, concentrate, get up, hide, meet, move, relax, sit down. 2. After a preposition of place or location we use a personal pronoun and not a reflexive pronoun. e.g. He put the backpack next to him.

14. Conclusion So, reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that shows that the action of the verb is occurring to the subject of the sentence. We use reflexive pronouns in such cases: 1.As the direct object or indirect object of the verb when we want to say that the object is the same person or thing as the subject of the verb in the same clause. 2.With transitive verbs. 3. At the end of a clause to emphasize that someone did something without any help from anyone else. 4. After nouns or pronouns to emphasize the person or thing that we are referring to. 5. After be and related verbs such as feel, look, seem to describe feelings, emotions and states. 6. With “ by ” to say that someone does something without any help from other people.

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