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Q Reflexives. Circle the right pronouns.
1 Of all my wife's relations I like myself/ herself the best.

[Joseph Cook)

2 Novels are about other people and poems are about themselves / yourself.
[Philip Larkin)
3 An egotist: a person more interested in himself / yourself than in me.
[Ambrose Bierce)
4 'How do you know you're God?' 'Simple. When I pray to Him I find I'm talking to myself/ himself.'
[Peter Barnes)
5 We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves / themselves.

[May Lamberton Becker)
6 You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it ourself / yourself.
[Tom Masson)

Q Grammar in a text. Choose words from the boxes to complete the text.

each other her his its themselves they your

My brother and i ........................girlfriend have known 2........................for about five years,

but 3 've only been going out together for six months.

he her him she their they we

Before that, he didn't like 4........................and 5.........................didn't like him, but later 6.......................
became good friends, and started going out together.

her hers his its it's our their they they're

7 ......................both have small flats. His flat is in the town centre, and 8........................very comfortable.
9........................is a long way out, and it's not so nice. So they spend most of io........................free
time at n ........................ place.

he her hers herself him himself its it's she's

He works in a garage, and 12.......................a teacher, but she doesn't let 13........................
touch 14...................... car-she looks after it is .........................

each other I my they them their themselves they're

I like 16........................ both very much, and I think 17........................good for is .......................

so 19.......................hope 20........................ will stay together.

Internet exercise. Use a search engine (e.g. Google). Which of these three expressions

gets most hits? Can you see why?
"She broke her arm." ...................
"She broke the arm." ...................
"She broke his arm." ...................

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