Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns Quiz

Directions: Choose the best answer. Remember pronouns refer to their antecedent (noun). For questions 1-5, identify the reflexive pronoun. 1. Miss Tomaszewski herself wrote this test.

(a)  

• Herself
• Miss Tomaszewski
• Wrote
• There is no reflexive pronoun.

The boy helped himself to the leftover pizza.

• Boy

• There is no reflexive pronoun.

• Pizza

• Himself

3. Jeremy and Lucy timed themselves to see who ran faster.

• Themselves

• Timed

• Jeremy

• There is no reflexive pronoun.

Directions: Choose the best answer. Remember pronouns refer to their antecedent (noun). For questions 1-5, identify the reflexive pronoun. 4. The principal, Mrs. Leichman, herself, came into our English language arts classroom at approximately 2:00 p.m.

• There is no reflexive pronoun.

• Class

• Herself

• Into

You are going to have to clean up the mess yourself.

• You

• There is no reflexive pronoun.

• Yourself

• Have

Which sentence DOES NOT use a reflexive pronoun?

• The student reminded himself of the test on Friday.

• Abby herself wrote a letter to the president.

• Mr. Smith baked himself a pie.

• They locked themselves out of the house.

Which sentence does NOT use an intensive pronoun?

• Billy scared himself when he stepped on a squeaky floorboard.

• Maria’s cat itself scratched me with its claws.

• The class themselves decided to do the homework.

• The dog itself found the missing sock.

For questions 8-10, select the best answer to fill in the blank. 8. William (a)   took out the trash.

• Itself

• Ourselves

• Himself

• None of the above

Ashley made (a)   a cold glass of lemonade.

• Themselves

• Herself

• Ourselves

• None of the above

In Standard English which, name the two reflexive pronouns we are to AVOID using:

• a. Herself, theirself

• b. Ourself, theirself

• c. Hisself, theirselves

• d. We don’t avoid any pronoun