PPX2 – English Grammar Profiler

preposition + plural reflexive

Plural reflexive pronouns are used when the subject of the sentence is plural. For example, in the sentence “The children played by themselves,” the plural reflexive pronoun “themselves” refers back to the subject “children.”
Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. For example, in the sentence “The children played by themselves,” the preposition “by” shows the relationship between the noun “children” and the pronoun “themselves.”

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plural reflexive pronouns

B2, emphasis, PRONOUNS, reflexive

Here are two B2 points in the English Grammar Profile in the category of PRONOUNS: Point 80: plural reflexive pronouns for emphasis. Point 83: plural reflexive pronouns to refer to actions where the subject and object of the verb are the same. This overlaps many other reflexive pronoun points and ’emphasis’ is not something

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yourselves

B2, PRONOUNS, reflexive

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 75 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: the plural reflexive pronoun ‘yourselves’ for politeness. The three examples in the EGP include a preposition before ‘yourselves’. And reflexive pronouns after a preposition are generally B2 already under other criteria. A search in NOW corpus for: * *

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