Intensive Pronouns Worksheet
A Grade 11 ELA worksheet focusing on identifying and using intensive pronouns.
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Intensive Pronouns Practice
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Read each section carefully and follow the instructions to demonstrate your understanding of intensive pronouns.
Intensive pronouns are used to emphasize a preceding noun or pronoun. They always end in -self or -selves. Unlike reflexive pronouns, intensive pronouns are not essential to the meaning of the sentence; if you remove them, the sentence still makes sense.
1. Which of the following sentences uses an intensive pronoun correctly?
She bought herself a new book.
The students themselves organized the event.
I saw myself in the mirror.
He hurt himself playing soccer.
2. In which sentence is 'ourselves' used as an intensive pronoun?
We prepared ourselves for the journey.
We built the treehouse ourselves.
They introduced ourselves to the new neighbors.
She reminded ourselves to be careful.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate intensive pronoun.
3. The principal announced the new policy.
4. I baked the entire cake .
5. You must take responsibility for your actions.
6. The team members decided to forfeit the game.
Determine whether the following statements about intensive pronouns are true or false.
7. Intensive pronouns are always necessary for the sentence to make grammatical sense.
True
False
8. Intensive pronouns can be used as the subject of a sentence.
True
False
9. Write a sentence using the intensive pronoun 'themselves'.
10. Explain the difference between an intensive pronoun and a reflexive pronoun.