Reflexive

+206.+ A compound personal pronoun has a reflexive use when the actor

becomes the object of its own action or in other words when the subject

and the object refer to the same thing; as in this sentence, _He has

hurt himself_, _himself_ is the object of the incomplete verb _has

hurt_, but it refers to the subject _he_. Reflexive is from the Latin

_re_ meaning _back_ and from the Latin verb meaning _throw_, so

reflexive means literally _thrown_ back. These pronouns throw their

meaning back to the subject.

Plain English · 第 220 / 661 题