2019年9月25日 · Reflexive pronouns have two main uses: a complement use where they are obligatory, as in "Ed hurt himself", and an emphatic use where they are optional, as in "Ed …

2023年1月6日 · a) Reflexive pronoun in direct object function (clarifies verbs that has mandatory reflexives, explaining structures that has optional reflexive [mainly object near prepositional …

1 After prepositions we sometimes use the personal pronouns and sometimes the reflexive pronouns. The personal pronouns are used when it is clear that the pronoun refers to the …

2014年11月9日 · We use reflexive pronoun after some verbs like *avail ourself, acquitted himself, absented themselves * etc and some time we have to avoid from reflexive pronoun after some …

2024年8月21日 · Great questions! Let’s break down the use of reflexive pronouns and prepositions of direction in these examples: nystateofhealth. She dragged it toward her. …

2020年12月12日 · This is that reflexive pronouns, at least in British English, are becoming an option to replace accusative pronouns (like me, you) in speech, possibly when mild emphasis …

2016年2月19日 · @audrahaddad To add to my answer, there are actually a couple of possibilities (both idiomatic) for a reflexive to be a predicate noun: in the idiomatic I'm not (feeling) myself …

2014年12月24日 · "Themselves" is interesting because, before it was used as a gender-neutral singular reflexive pronoun, it was the reflexive pronoun for plural nouns (or noun phrases like …

the rules require that the object Poe has to appear as a reflexive pronoun. That's all. The reflexive is automatic, given that the subject and object are co-referential.

2016年11月9日 · This short entry, apart from giving interesting examples, points out that the presence of a reflexive pronoun is not necessary for a verb to qualify as reflexive. They kissed …