St person 2nd person 3rd person

singular: myself yourself himself, herself,

itself

plural: ourselves yourselves themselves

2. Reflexive pronouns refer to the subject of the sentence in which they are used, indicating that the action performed by the doer passes back to him or is associated with him. In the sentence they are usually used as direct objects.

In that moment of emotion he betrayed the Forsyte in him—for­gothimself, his interests, his property—was capable of almost anything... (Galsworthy) (object)

Reflexive pronouns may be used as predicatives.

When she came back she was herself again. (Hardy) (predicative)

Reflexive pronouns preceded by a preposition may be used as indirect prepositional objects, as attributes and as adverbial mo­difiers.

He could not see that it would be better to make her feel that she was competing with herself... (Dreiser) (prepositional indi­rect object)

“I fancied you looked a little downcast when you came in,” she ventured to observe, anxious to keep away from the subjectof herself. (Hardy) (attribute)

If June did not like this, she could have an allowance and live by herself. (Galsworthy) (adverbial modifier of manner)

Reflexive pronouns may be used to form the reflexive voice (in this case reflexive pronouns are structural words):

Undressing again, she washed herself intensively... (Galsworthy)

And then I dressed myself and came away to find you. (Hardy)

Sometimes reflexive pronouns are used emphatically:

Moreover, Soameshimself disliked the thought of that. (Galsworthy)

She was never idle it seemed to him, and he envied her now that hehimself was idle nearly all his time. (Galsworthy)

§ 6. Reciprocal pronouns.

1. Reciprocal pronouns are the group-pronouns each other and one another. They express mutual action or relation. The subject to which they refer must always be in the plural.

"I didn't really know him," he thought, "and he didn't know me; but we loved each other." (Galsworthy)

We haven't set eyes onone another for years. (Priestly)

Each other generally implies only two, one another two or more than two persons:

He had never heard his father or his mother speak in an angry voice, either to each other, himself, or anybody else. (Galsworthy)

Seated in a row close to one another were three ladies—Aunts Ann, Hester (the two Forsyte maids) and Julie (short for Julia)... (Galsworthy)

It must be mentioned that this distinction, is not always strictly observed:

I should have been surprised if those two could have thought very highly ofone another. (Dickens)

2. Reciprocal pronouns have two case forms.

Girls banged into each other and stamped on each other's feet. (Mansfield)

The common case of reciprocal pronouns is used as an object.

The men were not grave and dignified. They lost their tempers easily and calledone another names... (London)

Elizabeth and George talked and foundeach other delightful. (Aldington)

The genitive case of reciprocal pronouns may be used as an attribute.

At first it struck me that I might live by selling my works to the ten per cent who were like myself; but a moment's reflection showed me that these must all be as penniless as I, and that we could not live by, so to speak, taking inone another's washing. (Shaw)

Not until moon and stars faded away and streaks of daylight began to appear, did Meitje Brinker and Hans look hopelessly intoeach other's face. (Dodge)

Reciprocal pronouns preceded by a preposition are used as a prepositional indirect object:

They lookat one another for a moment. (Dickens)

...in silence they staredat each other. (Saxton)

§ 7. Demonstrative pronouns.

1. The demonstrative pronouns are this, that, such, (the) same.

The demonstrative pronouns this and thathave two numbers this— these; that—those.

Thisis used to point at what is nearer in time or space; thatpoints at what is farther away in time or space.

He looked him over critically. "Yes, this boy might do," he thought. (Dreiser)

"I like that fellow," Henry Waterman confided to his brother the moment Frank had gone with instructions to report the following morning. (Dreiser)

This and thatmay be applied both to persons and things.

Andthis girl was French, not likely to lose her head, or accept any unlegalized position. (Galsworthy)

Other people were anxious to getthis soap atthis price. (Dreiser)

What do you think of that Belgian fellow, Profond? (Galsworthy)

To Forsyte imaginationthat house was now a sort of Chinese pillbox... (Galsworthy)

The pronoun such.

She wore a red ribbon in her hair, and was the only one of the white company who could boast of such a pronounced adornment. (Hardy)

The pronoun sameis always used with the definite article.

The driver was a young man... wearing a dandy cap, drab jacket, breeches of the same hue. (Hardy)

2. The demonstrative pronouns this and that are used as sub­jects, predicatives, objects and attributes.

It's all right, but I'd rather try my hand at brokerage, I think that appeals to me. (Dreiser) (subject)

The only honest people — if they existed — werethose who said: "This is foul brutality..." (Aldington) (predicative)

Tell me just how you didthis. (Dreiser) (object)

"Ifthat young fellow wanted a place, I'd give it to him," he thought. (Dreiser) (attribute)

The demonstrative pronoun that (those) may be used as a word-substitute:

But in thinking of his remaining guest, an expression likethat of a cat who is just going to purr stole over his (Swithin's) old face.. (Galsworthy)

The features (of young Jolyon) were certainlythose of a Forsyte, but the expression was more the introspective look of a student or philosopher. (Galsworthy)

The pronoun such is used as subject, predicative, object, and attribute:

If any living man can manage this horse I can: —I won't say any living man can do it— but if such has the power, I am here. (Hardy) (subject)

Her idolatry of this man was such that she herself almost feared it to be ill omened. (Hardy) (predicative)

But such thoughts and visions did not prevent him from following Professor Caldwell closely. (London) (attribute)

The pronoun (the) same usually performs the function of an at­tribute, but it may be used as subject, predicative, object:

We were in the same classes. (London) (attribute)

It is to be feared the same could not be said of you, were you to be called hence. (Ch. Bronte) (subject)

Martin's Sunday was the same as before. (London) (predicative)

May this young man do the same!" said Angel fervently. (Hardy) (object)