OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR-101 sau đây là giáo trình lý thuyết tiếng anh và bài tập áp dụng từ cơ bản đến nâng cao , nhằm giúp các bạn có thể tự mình ôn tập và củng cố thêm về nền tảng kiến thức môn Anh văn , tự tin đạt kết quả tốt trong kỳ thi ngoại ngữ | OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR 101 EMPHATIC PRONOUNS AND EACH OTHER A Emphatic pronouns Trevor and Laura are decorating their living-room themselves. An emphatic pronoun is a word like myself yourself. It has the same form as a reflexive pronoun see Unit 100B . Here the emphatic pronoun means without help . Trevor and Laura are decorating the room without help from anyone else. Compare They re having the room wallpapered by a decorator see Unit 58A . Here are some more examples. I built this boat myself. My sister designs all these clothes herself. Are you doing all the painting yourselves When we say these sentences we stress self or selves. Now look at these examples. The manager himself welcomed us to the hotel. The manager welcomed us not someone else. Although she is very rich the Queen herself never carries any money. The house itself is small but the garden is enormous. Of course the children have been to the zoo. You yourself took them there last year. Here the emphatic pronoun comes after the noun or pronoun it relates to. B Each other Look at this example. Andrew and Jessica help each other with their work. This means that Andrew helps Jessica and Jessica helps Andrew. Here are some more examples. Mark and Alan aren t really friends. They don t like each other much. I m still in touch with Kirsty. We write to each other. One another has the same meaning. We send each other one another Christmas cards every year. We can also use the possessive form each other s. Tom and Mark wrote down each other s phone numbers. This means that Tom wrote down Mark s number and Mark wrote down Tom s number. Compare each other and themselves. They re laughing at each other. They re laughing at themselves. 101 EXERCISES 1 Emphatic pronouns A Add a sentence with an emphatic pronoun . myself. Use these verbs bake clean decorate develop grow paint service type I don t take the car to the garage. service it myself. Laura didn t buy those pictures. She painted them herself. 1 Tom .
