herself
pronoun
used for showing that the woman, girl, or female animal that does something is also affected by her action or is involved in it
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pronoun
used for showing that the woman, girl, or female animal that does something is also affected by her action or is involved in it
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used for referring to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned in the sentence
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used for emphasizing that you are referring to a particular woman, girl, or female animal and not to anyone else
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used for emphasizing that a particular woman, girl, or female animal does something without help from anyone else
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used for showing that the man, boy, or male animal that does something is also affected by his action or is involved in it
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used in a general way for referring to the subject of a sentence or someone else mentioned in the sentence when they may be either male or female, especially when the subject is a word such as ‘everyone’, ‘someone’, or ‘anyone’
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used for emphasizing that you are referring to a particular man, boy, or male animal and not to anyone else
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used for emphasizing that a particular man, boy, or male animal does something without help from anyone else
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used for showing that a thing, group, animal, or baby that does something is also affected by the action or is involved in it
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used for emphasizing that you are referring to a particular thing and not to anything else
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used for showing that you are affected by or involved in the results of something that you do
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used for referring to yourself when you have already been mentioned in the same sentence
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used instead of ‘I’ or ‘me’ when you are trying to be polite. Many people think that this use is incorrect
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used for showing that people in general, including yourself, are affected by or involved in the results of something that they do
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sometimes used instead of ‘ourselves’ when referring to a group that you belong to, although many people consider that this is not correct
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used for showing that both you and a group that you are a part of are affected by or involved in an action that you do together
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used for referring to yourself and a group that you are a part of, when you have already been mentioned in the same sentence
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used instead of ‘us’ when you are trying to be polite. Many people consider this use to be incorrect
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used for emphasizing that you are referring to yourself and the group that you are a part of, and not to anyone else
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used for emphasizing that you and the group that you are a part of do something without help from anyone else
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used instead of ‘himself’ or ‘herself’ for referring back to the subject of a sentence, especially when the subject is a word such as ‘everyone’, ‘someone’, or ‘anyone’. Most people consider this use incorrect
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used for showing that the people or things that do something are also affected by it or involved in it
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used for referring back to a group of people already mentioned in the same sentence
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used instead of ‘himself’ or ‘herself’ for referring back to a singular subject of a sentence, especially when the subject is a word such as ‘everyone’, ‘someone’, or ‘anyone’
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used for emphasizing that a particular group of people are the ones that you are referring to, and not any others
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used for emphasizing that a particular group of people do something without help from anyone else
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used for showing that the person or people you are talking or writing to are affected by or involved in an action that they do
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used for referring back to the person or people who you are talking or writing to when they have already been mentioned in the sentence
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used with ‘you’ for emphasizing that you mean the person or people who you are talking or writing to and no one else
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used for emphasizing that the person or people who you are talking or writing to must do something without help from anyone else
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used instead of ‘you’ in order to be formal or polite, although many people feel this is incorrect
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