'We took the horses out by ourselves.'
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Chris McCarthy."
In the above sentence me is the subject and myself is the object.
We use myself, yourself, himself, herself, themselves or itself when the object of the sentence is the same as the subject. They are all known as reflexive pronouns.
Myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself are all singular - they refer to one person (or a 'thing' for itself).
Ourselves, yourselves and themselves are all plural - they refer to more than one person.
Examples
"My daughter walks to school by herself."
"You should take more care of yourself."
"They hurt themselves in the car accident."
"We have to make dinner ourselves."
Got it? Let's find out - it's your turn! Complete the following sentences with the correct reflexive pronoun:
Link: test your pronoun knowledge
- Don't help her. She can do it .
- I'm sorry John, you'll have to go to the party by .
- They asked what they did wrong.
- We really enjoyed on our holiday.
- I thought to that it's time to buy a new coat.
- The robot in the movie could think for .
- All of you need to carry your bags by .
Comments
Me, Myself and....I
It wasn't hard at all for me to get it 100% right. I'm true to myself when I say everybody can do this exercise without mistakes.
Thanks for the exercises
I hope that robots will be able to do these ones themselves!
hesitation
Nice exercise, but i hesitated between itself and himself for the robot. Whenever i've choosen the right one. thanks
Sorry...
...for being obsessed by the use of prepositions but can I say:
We have to make dinner by ourselves
in the place of We have to make dinner ourselves?
How should I behave when I have to face myself with sentences like:
I go to school by myself/I go to school myself?
Bye
EL
very good site
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thank you .... but
thanx for the nkowledge but
in the first statement
am i have to say :
Don't help her.She can do it BY herslef.
isn't by is important here or what?
thank you again
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yees, it was very easy...
thanks EC / Malta...
not to bad this is first
hi
Thanks Cathy
hi...
i found this very useful thank you very much
using by or not
Thank for your quiz!it is so great!
I think that there is difference between the sentences which use "by "and without by:
You don't use "by"(maybe another preposition:to ,for..)in the sentence when the subject and the object are the same.
You use by in the sentence when you want to emphasize the subject.
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Hello
I answered it by myself without making any mistakes..
thank you very much very helpful 
Peace
I am in principle, there is
I am in principle, there is little that the meaning of fasting in bhp, but still try to understand.
What shows us that it is plural???
The last sentence - I made a mistake. What shows us that it is plural???
The last sentence is plural because..
The last sentence is plural because it starts "All of you need to..." . if it referred to a single person it would be "You need to...".
I failed one,the robot.but
I failed one,the robot.but pls can u say,
we took the horses ourselves. instead of "by ourselves"