Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns

Key Notes:

✨ Personal vs Reflexive Pronouns ✨

🔹 Personal Pronouns 👩‍👩‍👦

Used to refer to people or things directly.

Take the place of nouns.

Examples:

• 👉 I, you, he, she, it, we, they
• 👉 me, him, her, us, them

📌 Example sentence:

• ✔️ She is my best friend.
• ✔️ I helped him with homework.

🔹 Reflexive Pronouns 🪞

Used when the subject and object are the same person.

They “reflect” back to the subject.

Formed with -self / -selves.

Examples:

• 👉 myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves

📌 Example sentence:

• ✔️ I taught myself to play the guitar. 🎸
• ✔️ They enjoyed themselves at the party. 🎉

🔹 How to Choose? 🤔

• If the action is done to another person/thing → Personal Pronoun
  ✔️ She helped him.
• If the action is done back to the subject → Reflexive Pronoun
  ✔️ She helped herself.

🌟 Quick Tip 🌟

• ✨ Reflexive pronouns cannot replace personal pronouns.
• ❌ Wrong: Myself went to the shop.
• ✔️ Correct: I went to the shop myself.

📝 Mini Practice 🎯

• He blamed ___ (him / himself).
• We will help ___ (us / ourselves).
• They invited ___ (them / themselves).