Intensive Pronoun Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: L.6.1.B

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These types of pronouns hold a great deal of similarity and a key difference. Reflexive pronouns are objects that directly associate to a subject. This makes them a concrete and necessary part of any sentence. Intensive pronouns are added to sentence to help you provide emphasizes on a noun or pronoun. They are not the foundation of a sentence, such as their reflexive counterpoint. These reflexive and intensive forms are similar in that they end in either -self or -selves. These worksheets help students to learn how to place and use reflexive and intensive pronouns.

Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns Worksheets:

Find The Pronoun - Where is that little proper noun? What type is it? Classify it based on what you have learned so far.

Identify Pronouns - All types of adventures can be found in here. You will look at the bold word in each sentence and classify it using an R or I. You probably can guess why.

Being Choosy - You will need to think these up all by yourself. There are no word banks here. Once you place them in the sentences, classify how they act grammatically.

What I Am Proud Of - Have you done anything special lately or in the past? What did you learn as a result of your accomplishment? Write a paragraph about something you did that you are proud of.

Fill Ins - Write two sentences for me in each case, if it helps you. This worksheet is all about categorizing everything that is in front of you.

Using Them - On the line in each of the following sentences, write a reflexive or intensive pronoun that will correctly complete the sentence.

Intense Writing - In each sentence, identify if the pronoun in bold type is reflexive or intensive. Write R for reflexive or I for intensive on the line.

In Sentences - Underline the reflexive or intensive pronoun in each sentence. On the line, write R for reflexive or I for intensive.

Choosing - Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with appropriate use of grammar as we have been working on here.

Intensive - Write a sentence for each intensive pronoun below. Make sure the intensive pronoun adds emphasis to the subject of the sentence.

Picture Work - Use the picture for inspiration to write a short story. Guess what parts of speech you will need to make sure is in there at least four times?

Rewrite It - Rewrite each of the following sentences adding an intensive pronoun for emphasis.

Inspiring Picture - Use the picture for inspiration to write a short story. Use at least four reflexive or intensive pronouns in your story.

What's the Pronoun? - Circle the pronoun in each sentence. Then write reflexive or intensive on the line to tell what type of pronoun it is.

Push Them Out - Write about something exciting that happened to you. What did you learn?

What Are Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns?

A pronoun is an essential element of English grammar. Without the usage of pronouns, texts seem very dry and boring. They make the written texts more understandable and comprehensible while also adding a little bit of interest to them. These parts of speech are substitutes for nouns or noun phrases. They help in avoiding repetition in the text. They add more value to the text by making it seem easier to read.


There are seven different forms of them in the English Language. The types are based on the usage of the noun in the text. They have been divided into different types to avoid any confusion. You must learn all the types of pronouns to use them in a better way in the text. The seven types of pronouns are reflexive, intensive, demonstrative, interrogative, personal, reciprocal, and possessive. The first two types of pronouns i.e. reflexive and intensive appear to be same. However, they both are very different from each other if you notice of purpose and meaning of them both.


Intensive Pronouns

Intensives are used to put emphasis. Their purpose is to make the subject of the sentence clear and emphasized. Here are some examples of intensive pronouns.

I myself will do all the laundry.
We went to see the girl herself do the action.
She let the man himself speak.
They themselves did all the work.


Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexives can be easily confused with intensive pronouns. However, their function is to appear as objects that refer to the subjects. Here are some examples for a clear understanding.

I kicked myself.
The boy made a sandwich for himself.
Sasha went to the kitchen to make herself breakfast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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