fill in the emphatic pronoun.. I dash have a fear of rats so I don't ask me to clean up the old barn
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Explanation:
fill in the emphatic pronoun.. I dash have a fear of rats so I don't ask me to clean up the old barn
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When the subject and the object of the verb is the same person or thing, we use a reflexive pronoun. When reflexive pronouns are used to put emphasis on a particular noun, they are called emphatic pronouns.
In the given sentence the subject and the object of the verb is 'the boys'. So a reflexive pronoun must be used.
'Them', 'Their', 'Theirs' are not reflexive pronouns. We can thus eliminate options A,C and D as incorrect answers.
'Themselves' is the reflexive pronoun for third person plural. As the noun in the given sentence is a plural one, option E is the correct answer.
The reflexive pronoun for singular third person is 'himself','herself' or 'itself' according to the gender of the noun.