https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/9th-and-10th-grade-grammar/xf006c25352e869bb:pronouns/xf006c25352e869bb:reflexive-and-intensive-pronouns-9/a/intensive-and-reflexive-pronouns-grammar-9 2026-07-13T19:41:05.916442654Z Intensive and reflexive pronouns Learn how to use intensive and reflexive pronouns. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-pronoun/possessive-and-reflexive-pronouns/v/reflexive-pronouns-the-parts-of-speech-grammar 2022-11-16T04:22:43.7414897Z Reflexive pronouns What are reflexive pronouns? When a subject and an object of the sentence are the same thing, it's time to use a reflexive pronoun, as in "I saw myself in the mirror". The subject is "I", and the object is "me", but it's not grammatical in Standard English to say "I saw me in the mirror". Instead, you'd say "myself". video https://cdn.kastatic.org/googleusercontent/RqlFGnSn_ISMQU1ObVudn2kGA_94-Uk7KXSjQjqH4oYle1BZjL9E8se6Dee1TeuIR7Aqxu1FDa3WUUIIw1DhtlR0 Reflexive pronouns What are reflexive pronouns? When a subject and an object of the sentence are the same thing, it's time to use a reflexive pronoun, as in "I saw myself in the mirror". The subject is "I", and the object is "me", but it's not grammatical in Standard English to say "I saw me in the mirror". Instead, you'd say "myself". https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/Zoh8XpfcF-c.mp4/Zoh8XpfcF-c.mp4 310 Reflexive and intensive pronouns https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-pronoun/indefinite-pronouns-pronoun-vagueness-and-emphatic-pronouns/v/emphatic-pronouns-the-parts-of-speech-grammar 2026-07-08T23:40:45.874044968Z Emphatic pronouns Sometimes we use reflexive pronouns like "myself" and "ourselves" for emphasis in a sentence, like, "If you won't help me, then I'll do it myself!" video https://cdn.kastatic.org/googleusercontent/HyIHsswwGNeIQRm2m71DGNv_H0X96pc4iwGqjYN6NqNnq7OOkDtMn85qJ-dX-LvpUsaqYPVJN4LEBKEgEMZBWnX5 Emphatic pronouns Sometimes we use reflexive pronouns like "myself" and "ourselves" for emphasis in a sentence, like, "If you won't help me, then I'll do it myself!" https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/ADfyReSt2L0.mp4/ADfyReSt2L0.mp4 175 Reflexive and intensive pronouns https://www.khanacademy.org/ela/9th-and-10th-grade-grammar/xf006c25352e869bb:pronouns/xf006c25352e869bb:reflexive-and-intensive-pronouns-9/e/reflexive-and-intensive-pronouns-grammar-9 2026-07-13T19:41:05.916442654Z Reflexive and intensive pronouns Practice using reflexive and intensive pronouns. David Rheinstrom exercise