“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.” - M. C. Escher

Intensive - Indicating increased emphasis or force.

Reflexive - Directed back on itself.

Personal pronouns that end in self or selves serve to repeat and emphasize the subject and to point back to the subject antecedent.

She hurt herself. “She” is the antecedent of “herself”. “Herself” is the object, “she” is the subject.

Object - a thing, person, or matter to which thought or action is directed.

Subject - The noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in a sentence or clause that denotes the doer of the action or what is described by the predicate.

Note: do not confuse or replace myself for me. They are similar but not the same: He is reading the same book as John and me.

Intensive and reflexive pronouns are easy to spot because they end in “self” or selves”: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves. Intensive pronouns are also next to or real close to the subject of the sentence: I myself, you yourself, the general himself, we ourselves, etc.

Some really good notes here and here.

PS. I just took a quiz on intensive and reflexive pronouns and got 100%. :-)

 

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