Grammar                 Pronouns and Reflexive Pronouns

انواع الضمائر

Subjectالفاعل	objectالمفعول	Possessiveالملكية	Reflexiveالمنعكسة
I	me	My – mine	Myself
He	Him	His	Himself
She	Her	Her / hers	Herself
It	It	Its	Itself
We	Us	Our / ours	Ourselves
You	you	Your / yours	Yourself – yourselves
They	Them	Their / theirs	themselves

 1 - تستخدم الضمائر المنعكسة عندما يكون الفاعل والمفعول شيء واحد وكذلك للتأكيد :

 I will solve the problem myself.

Amira cut herself while she was cooking.

He repaired the car himself.

2 – نستخدم الضمائر المنعكسة لتعطي معنى :

 alone  / without any help / on +  ملكية  + own

He mended the car by himself.                 he mended the car alone.   

  he mended the car without any help.      he mended the car on his own.

3 – يمكن استخدام حرف الجر (by)  قبل الضمائر المنعكسة .

I wrote the article by myself.

4 – لا نستخدم الضمائر المنعكسة مع بعض الأفعال مثل :

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I washed myself and dressed.  (×)

I washed and dressed .

5 – تعبيرات خاصة بالضمائر المنعكسة :

         1 – behave yourself.

         2 – help yourself .

         3 – enjoy yourself.

         4 – make yourself at home.