Prime Time 4, Coursebook

Unit 9 Verbs with and without reflexive pronouns Try to remember when to use reflexive pronouns. We don’t use reflexive pronouns in English as often as we do in German. Reflexive pronouns are: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves phrases with reflexive pronouns to be hard on yourself to be full of yourself to behave yourself to call yourself something to cut yourself to enjoy yourself to express yourself to help yourself to something to hurt yourself to introduce yourself to somebody to laugh about yourself to look after yourself to look at yourself to make yourself at home to protect yourself from something to push yourself to put yourself first to talk to yourself verbs without reflexive pronouns to change to complain to concentrate to dress to feel to hide to hurry to imagine to look forward to to meet to move to relax to remember to shave to shower to sit down to wash to worry Reflexive pronouns vs. “each other” 1. We use reflexive pronouns when the subject and the object are the same : Lola and I enjoyed ourselves at the party last night. Dad served snacks and drinks shouting, “Help yourselves , kids !” They love taking selfies. They take pictures of themselves . 2. We use each other to describe an action between two people . The subject and the object are not the same . Lola and I haven’t seen each other for ages. I haven’t seen Lola , and Lola hasn’t seen me for ages. Ted and Laurie have never stopped giving each other birthday presents. Ted gives a present to Laurie , and Laurie gives a present to Ted . They love taking pictures of each other . Giles takes a picture of Claire , and Claire takes a picture of Giles . G10 " p. 73 G11 " p. 74 140 Grammar one hundred and forty Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv