Intensive Pronouns Mastery
This worksheet helps Grade 9 students understand and correctly use intensive pronouns in sentences.
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Intensive Pronouns Mastery
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. This worksheet focuses on identifying and using intensive pronouns correctly.
An intensive pronoun emphasizes its antecedent (the noun or pronoun it refers to). Intensive pronouns 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.
Examples: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
1. Which of the following sentences uses an intensive pronoun correctly?
He bought himself a new car.
The students themselves organized the event.
She looked at herself in the mirror.
I hurt myself playing soccer.
2. In the sentence, 'The principal herself announced the new policy,' what is the intensive pronoun?
principal
herself
policy
new
Complete each sentence with an appropriate intensive pronoun.
3. The chef prepared the entire feast.
4. We volunteered to clean up the park.
5. Did you see the solar eclipse?
6. The cat managed to open the door .
7. Write two sentences. In the first sentence, use an intensive pronoun to emphasize a singular subject. In the second sentence, use an intensive pronoun to emphasize a plural subject.
8. An intensive pronoun is always necessary for a sentence to be grammatically correct.
True
False
9. Intensive pronouns are identical in form to reflexive pronouns.
True
False
10. In your own words, explain the primary difference between an intensive pronoun and a reflexive pronoun. Provide an example for each.