Emphatic Pronouns

Edu-Primes

8/6/2024

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00:00Hi friends, today we will learn more about the types of pronouns, so let's start.

00:09We have already learned that there are 10 types of pronouns, and out of them we have

00:14learned about personal and reflexive pronouns in detail in our last section.

00:22Today we will learn about emphatic pronouns.

00:27Emphatic pronouns are same as reflexive pronouns.

00:32Himself, Herself, Ourselves, Itself, Yourself, Yourselves, all these are emphatic pronouns.

00:43Yes, exactly same as reflexive pronouns.

00:48Why do we call as emphatic pronouns?

00:53All these pronouns are compound pronouns, and they can be emphatic pronoun and reflexive

00:59pronoun.

01:01Depending on the role they play in the sentence, we will learn in next example.

01:09Reflexive pronouns are used when the subject refers to itself or subject and the object

01:15of the sentence are same.

01:18He bought a watch for himself.

01:22Here the subject is he, and the subject he is referring to itself by the use of pronoun

01:30himself.

01:32Also, you cannot remove the reflexive pronoun from the sentence.

01:39He bought a watch for...

01:42The sentence is incomplete without pronoun, so this pronoun is reflexive pronoun.

01:50Now see when these same compound pronouns are emphatic pronouns.

01:57You should be sorry.

01:59You yourself should be sorry.

02:01In the second sentence, the pronoun yourself laid emphasis on the pronoun you.

02:09So the compound pronoun yourself emphasizing the pronoun you.

02:15This is why here this compound pronoun is known as emphatic pronoun.

02:22Also, a sentence is still meaningful if you remove the emphatic pronoun from the sentence.

02:30He himself bought a watch.

02:33Here the emphatic pronoun himself is emphasizing the noun he.

02:40Even if you remove it, the sentence will remain meaningful.

02:46He bought a watch.

02:48So now we know what are emphatic pronouns.

02:51Let's have many more examples on it.

02:54I myself will clean this window.

02:58Here the emphatic pronoun myself emphasizing the pronoun I, and the sentence will remain

03:06meaningful if we remove myself like I will clean this window.

03:15The sentence is still meaningful.

03:18Remember, if compound pronouns like myself, herself, himself, itself cannot be removed

03:27from the sentence, in that case, those pronouns are called reflexive pronouns.

03:35If compound pronouns like myself, yourself, himself can be removed from the sentence and

03:44the sentence still remains meaningful, in that case, these pronouns are called emphatic

03:50pronouns.

03:52She herself will apologize for it.

03:56Here herself, a compound pronoun, is an emphatic pronoun, as it's emphasizing the pronoun she.

04:06And the sentence will remain meaningful if you remove herself.

04:11She will apologize for it.

04:14He himself should pack his bag.

04:18Here himself, a compound pronoun, is an emphatic pronoun, as it's emphasizing the pronoun he.

04:27And the sentence will remain meaningful if you remove himself.

04:32He should pack his bag.

04:35They themselves will pay for the fine.

04:39Here themselves is an emphatic pronoun, that is emphasizing the pronoun they.

04:47I myself heard that loud sound.

04:51Here myself, emphasizing I.

04:55And the sentence will remain meaningful without it.

04:59I heard that loud sound.

05:02So in all these sentences, the compound pronoun is emphasizing the pronoun.

05:09Now next we will learn what are possessive pronouns.

05:14Possessive pronouns.

05:17This is my pen, not her pen.

05:20You can see that the word pen is being repeated, and it makes the sentence somewhat less refined

05:28as they are repetitive.

05:30So to avoid this kind of repetition, we use pronouns like, this pen is mine, not hers.

05:40The pronoun mine and hers tell us about the ownership of the pen.

05:46These pronouns are called possessive pronouns, as they tell us about the ownership and possession

05:52of things.

05:54Possessive pronouns replace nouns or noun phrases in a sentence.

06:00Also they are never followed by a noun.

06:03Let's have a look at more examples.

06:06My father is much taller than your father.

06:10It seems repetitive.

06:12The word father is coming twice in the sentence.

06:17Here we can use possessive pronoun to replace the noun in sentence.

06:22My father is much taller than yours.

06:26Here we have used the possessive pronoun yours, which has replaced a noun very well, and it's

06:33not followed by any other noun.

06:38Your pencil is sharper than my pencil.

06:41Again, it seems repetitive, as the word pencil is being repeated there twice.

06:48So you can use a possessive pronoun to replace a noun.

06:53Your pencil is sharper than mine.

06:57Here we have used the possessive pronoun mine.

07:01It has replaced the noun very well, and it shows the possession of the pencil.

07:09Here we have a table which will help you to remember different possessive pronouns

07:14to be used for different situations.

07:19Mine is used to tell about the ownership of the pronoun I.

07:24Yours is used to tell about the ownership of the pronoun you.

07:29Similarly, his for he, hers for she, its for it.

07:39Ours for we, theirs for they.

07:45Now let's see the usage of different possessive pronouns.

07:49Examples.

07:50All these dresses and bags are mine.

07:54Here, mine is telling about the ownership of the pronoun I.

08:02What's mine is yours, my buddy.

08:05Here the pronoun mine is telling about the ownership of I, and yours is telling about

08:12the ownership of you.

08:16The red house is theirs.

08:20Theirs is telling the ownership of the pronoun they.

08:25The whole idea of giving a surprise party was mine.

08:30Here, mine is telling the ownership of the pronoun I.

08:36Their interests are different from ours.

08:39Here, ours is telling the ownership of the pronoun we.

08:45John's efforts were better than hers, so he won.

08:49Hers is telling the ownership of the pronoun she.

08:53It was not our mistake, but theirs that they lost the game.

08:58Telling the ownership of the pronoun they.

09:02So kids, possessive pronouns tell us about the possession or ownership of someone or

09:09something.

09:11They replace the noun or noun phrase in the sentence, and they are not followed by another

09:19noun.

09:20Also, they make a sentence less repetitive.

09:24So friends, that's all for today.

09:27We have learned what are emphatic pronouns, and what are possessive pronouns.

09:33Now you may go ahead and take a quiz to learn more.

09:36Bye-bye.

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