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TEACHER’S COPY/ANSWER KEY TEACHER’S COPY/ANSWER KEYEnglish Language Arts, Parts of Speech Unit 5, Pronouns, Lesson 11 Worksheet: The Reflexive and Intensive Pronoun. As you know, pronouns serve a variety of functions, depending on their case—nominative, objective or possessive. This worksheet asks you to work toward building an understanding of the use of the reflexive and intensive pronouns. There are eight reflexive and intensive pronouns—myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves—and their reflexive and intensive status, like all words in the English language, depends on how they are used: reflexive pronouns are used as objects in sentences—which means they follow the verb, as in The vampire bit himself. Intensive pronouns, as their name indicates, intensify the subject of a sentence, and therefore generally follow the subject as in “the vampire himself is not too intelligent.” Here are some models to help you with your classwork today:Reflexive Pronoun: Yolanda put herself on guard. She made a pact with herself never to consort with fascists. The zombie threw himself in front of the 5 train. Don’t you think yourself all high and mighty. The students helped themselves to slices of pizza.Intensive Pronoun: George himself bought a Ferrari. I myself ate the last slice of pizza.You yourself made this claim. They themselves vanquished the zombies. Alesha herself will deliver a beatdown to you. We ourselves dislike carrot-raisin salad.Classwork: In these modified cloze exercises, place the proper reflexive or intensive pronoun in the cloze blank, given the sense of the sentence.****** (himself or herself) wrote these two novels.***** had to check (himself or herself) before ** wrecked (himself or herself).******** (himself or herself) opened four cans of whupass today.The zombies (themselves) raided Castle Hill Avenue.We bought some snacks for (ourselves).We (ourselves) are taking control of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.I bought (myself) a new chainsaw for combating zombies.The rhinoceros got in the watering hole to clean (itself).Did you get (yourself) some snacks for the movie?******, ****** and ****** saw (themselves) in the funhouse mirror at Coney Island.They (themselves) are simply too lazy to shop for groceries.We (ourselves) walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and bought (ourselves) an helado in Cadman Plaza.The chimpanzee peeled (itself) a banana.Would you please take (yourself) elsewhere?****** thinks of (himself) as one bad dude.You (yourself) told me that ****** fixed (himself or herself) dinner last evening.****** was pleased to find (himself) the number one draft pick in the NBA in 2013.****** and ******** helped (themselves) to food from the Chinese buffet.Many people thought violent video games (themselves) were the problem.The computer (itself) automatically runs virus puter scientists are working on a method for computers to program (themselves).We work (ourselves) through series of grammar exercises every day.******* mom didn’t believe **** when *** told her that her car wrecked (itself).They taught (themselves) how to cook tamales.***** performed open-heart surgery on (himself or herself).Herman Munster (himself) works at an office. ................
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