Personal Reflexive: Meaning and Example

Grammar – Pronouns – Types – Personal Reflexive 

Personal Pronouns 

 I, we, you, they are called personal pronouns because they stand for the three persons.  

1. First-person- I, we, me, us, mine, ours are the first person. 

2. Second person- You, yours are second person. 

3. Third person- He, she, it, they, him are third person.  

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Examples of Personal Pronouns  

I like green tea  / Sam helped me. 

Do you like green tea?  / Sam loves you. 

She runs fast. / Did Tom beat him? 

He is clever. / Does Mark know her? 

We went to Church. / Robin drove us. 

Do you need a table for four?/ Did James and Shelly beat you at doubles? 

They played doubles. / James and Shelly beat them. 

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Sometimes we refer to a person, or an animal as She /her, and he/him. If the animal is a pet.  

This is our dog Roby. He‘s a Pomeranian.  

The Titanic was a remarkable ship, but she sank on her first voyage. 

My first vehicle was a Mini and I treated her like my wife. 

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Examples for the first person  

If a student needs help, he or she should  

approach the teacher. 

If a student needs help, he should approach the teacher. 

If a student needs help, they should approach the teacher. 

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We generally use “It” to introduce a remark: 

It is good to have a gala time sometimes. 

It is important to take care. 

It is difficult to find a place to live. 

Is it normal to see them together in class? 

It didn’t take long to stay here. 

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We often use it to talk about the weather, temperature, time and distance: 

It is windy.  

It will probably be foggy tomorrow. 

Is it ten o’clock yet? 

It is 80 kilometers from here to California.  

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A personal reflexive pronoun is a pronoun used as an object that cites to the same person or thing as the subject for, e.g., from the sentence given above: 

She looked at herself in the mirror, here herself is the reflexive pronoun as it cites to the person as the subject, i.e., she is herself. 

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The commonly used reflexive pronouns are listed below: 

myself: me (the speaker) 

yourself: you as a singular (single person the speaker) 

itself: it (a thing or an animal) 

himself: him (a masculine)  

herself: her (a feminine) 

ourselves: us (the speaker and others together) 

yourselves: you as a plural (the speaker)