What is the difference between reflexive and emphatic pronouns??????
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A pronoun is a pro-form of a noun. They generally replace an entire noun phrase.
Personal pronouns generally are defined in reference to yourself. 1st person=the person who is the speaker, or the speaker and additional people; 2nd person=person or people being addressed; 3rd person=third parties not being directly addressed
In most languages, pronouns have irregular morphology, and stand in for an entire Determiner-Phrase; thus they cannot generally take determiners.
English plural pronouns may take some quantifiers, but can't really take any other determiner: "many of us/them"=grammatical *"the them/us"=ungrammatical
Some languages, like Japanese, do not really have structural pronouns that behave independently from common nouns. Pronouns are modified by the same inflectional markers as regular nouns, and often have meanings you can parse (e.g. boku=man-servant; watashi=personal).
Personal pronouns generally are defined in reference to yourself. 1st person=the person who is the speaker, or the speaker and additional people; 2nd person=person or people being addressed; 3rd person=third parties not being directly addressed
In most languages, pronouns have irregular morphology, and stand in for an entire Determiner-Phrase; thus they cannot generally take determiners.
English plural pronouns may take some quantifiers, but can't really take any other determiner: "many of us/them"=grammatical *"the them/us"=ungrammatical
Some languages, like Japanese, do not really have structural pronouns that behave independently from common nouns. Pronouns are modified by the same inflectional markers as regular nouns, and often have meanings you can parse (e.g. boku=man-servant; watashi=personal).
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Emphatic pronoun :-
Example-- the prisoner hanged *himself* (himself is the emphatic pronoun )
This is because the prisoner is the doer as well as receiver if you read the sentence the prisoner has hanged himself(doing the action) himself means he has also hurt himself so he is also the receiver
Hence, if the subject is both doer and receiver then it's emphatic pronoun and if it is only one of them like if the sentence would the police hung the prisoner so here the police hung the prisoner the doer of action and receiver differs so here it is reflexive pronoun
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