Intensive pronouns are words that we use to emphasize the subject in a sentence.
- Did you yourself make this coffee?
- I myself must solve the problem.
- We will go there ourselves.
- You yourselves can do this.
| singular | Subject pronouns | Intensive pronouns |
| I | myself | |
| you | yourself | |
| he | himself | |
| she | herself | |
| it | itself | |
| plural | we | ourselves |
| you | yourselves | |
| they | themselves |
When we remove the intensive pronoun from a sentence, the sentence still makes sense.
- He will do the job himself. – He will do the job.
- That itself is the problem. – That is the problem.
- We organized the party ourselves. – We organized the party.
The position of the intensive pronoun is either after the subject or at the end of the sentence.
- I always clean my room myself.
- She herself has never been here.
