Emphatic Pronouns
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00:00Hi friends, today we will learn more about the types of pronouns, so let's start.
00:09We have already learned that there are 10 types of pronouns, and out of them we have
00:14learned about personal and reflexive pronouns in detail in our last section.
00:22Today we will learn about emphatic pronouns.
00:27Emphatic pronouns are same as reflexive pronouns.
00:32Himself, Herself, Ourselves, Itself, Yourself, Yourselves, all these are emphatic pronouns.
00:43Yes, exactly same as reflexive pronouns.
00:48Why do we call as emphatic pronouns?
00:53All these pronouns are compound pronouns, and they can be emphatic pronoun and reflexive
00:59pronoun.
01:01Depending on the role they play in the sentence, we will learn in next example.
01:09Reflexive pronouns are used when the subject refers to itself or subject and the object
01:15of the sentence are same.
01:18He bought a watch for himself.
01:22Here the subject is he, and the subject he is referring to itself by the use of pronoun
01:30himself.
01:32Also, you cannot remove the reflexive pronoun from the sentence.
01:39He bought a watch for...
01:42The sentence is incomplete without pronoun, so this pronoun is reflexive pronoun.
01:50Now see when these same compound pronouns are emphatic pronouns.
01:57You should be sorry.
01:59You yourself should be sorry.
02:01In the second sentence, the pronoun yourself laid emphasis on the pronoun you.
02:09So the compound pronoun yourself emphasizing the pronoun you.
02:15This is why here this compound pronoun is known as emphatic pronoun.
02:22Also, a sentence is still meaningful if you remove the emphatic pronoun from the sentence.
02:30He himself bought a watch.
02:33Here the emphatic pronoun himself is emphasizing the noun he.
02:40Even if you remove it, the sentence will remain meaningful.
02:46He bought a watch.
02:48So now we know what are emphatic pronouns.
02:51Let's have many more examples on it.
02:54I myself will clean this window.
02:58Here the emphatic pronoun myself emphasizing the pronoun I, and the sentence will remain
03:06meaningful if we remove myself like I will clean this window.
03:15The sentence is still meaningful.
03:18Remember, if compound pronouns like myself, herself, himself, itself cannot be removed
03:27from the sentence, in that case, those pronouns are called reflexive pronouns.
03:35If compound pronouns like myself, yourself, himself can be removed from the sentence and
03:44the sentence still remains meaningful, in that case, these pronouns are called emphatic
03:50pronouns.
03:52She herself will apologize for it.
03:56Here herself, a compound pronoun, is an emphatic pronoun, as it's emphasizing the pronoun she.
04:06And the sentence will remain meaningful if you remove herself.
04:11She will apologize for it.
04:14He himself should pack his bag.
04:18Here himself, a compound pronoun, is an emphatic pronoun, as it's emphasizing the pronoun he.
04:27And the sentence will remain meaningful if you remove himself.
04:32He should pack his bag.
04:35They themselves will pay for the fine.
04:39Here themselves is an emphatic pronoun, that is emphasizing the pronoun they.
04:47I myself heard that loud sound.
04:51Here myself, emphasizing I.
04:55And the sentence will remain meaningful without it.
04:59I heard that loud sound.
05:02So in all these sentences, the compound pronoun is emphasizing the pronoun.
05:09Now next we will learn what are possessive pronouns.
05:14Possessive pronouns.
05:17This is my pen, not her pen.
05:20You can see that the word pen is being repeated, and it makes the sentence somewhat less refined
05:28as they are repetitive.
05:30So to avoid this kind of repetition, we use pronouns like, this pen is mine, not hers.
05:40The pronoun mine and hers tell us about the ownership of the pen.
05:46These pronouns are called possessive pronouns, as they tell us about the ownership and possession
05:52of things.
05:54Possessive pronouns replace nouns or noun phrases in a sentence.
06:00Also they are never followed by a noun.
06:03Let's have a look at more examples.
06:06My father is much taller than your father.
06:10It seems repetitive.
06:12The word father is coming twice in the sentence.
06:17Here we can use possessive pronoun to replace the noun in sentence.
06:22My father is much taller than yours.
06:26Here we have used the possessive pronoun yours, which has replaced a noun very well, and it's
06:33not followed by any other noun.
06:38Your pencil is sharper than my pencil.
06:41Again, it seems repetitive, as the word pencil is being repeated there twice.
06:48So you can use a possessive pronoun to replace a noun.
06:53Your pencil is sharper than mine.
06:57Here we have used the possessive pronoun mine.
07:01It has replaced the noun very well, and it shows the possession of the pencil.
07:09Here we have a table which will help you to remember different possessive pronouns
07:14to be used for different situations.
07:19Mine is used to tell about the ownership of the pronoun I.
07:24Yours is used to tell about the ownership of the pronoun you.
07:29Similarly, his for he, hers for she, its for it.
07:39Ours for we, theirs for they.
07:45Now let's see the usage of different possessive pronouns.
07:49Examples.
07:50All these dresses and bags are mine.
07:54Here, mine is telling about the ownership of the pronoun I.
08:02What's mine is yours, my buddy.
08:05Here the pronoun mine is telling about the ownership of I, and yours is telling about
08:12the ownership of you.
08:16The red house is theirs.
08:20Theirs is telling the ownership of the pronoun they.
08:25The whole idea of giving a surprise party was mine.
08:30Here, mine is telling the ownership of the pronoun I.
08:36Their interests are different from ours.
08:39Here, ours is telling the ownership of the pronoun we.
08:45John's efforts were better than hers, so he won.
08:49Hers is telling the ownership of the pronoun she.
08:53It was not our mistake, but theirs that they lost the game.
08:58Telling the ownership of the pronoun they.
09:02So kids, possessive pronouns tell us about the possession or ownership of someone or
09:09something.
09:11They replace the noun or noun phrase in the sentence, and they are not followed by another
09:19noun.
09:20Also, they make a sentence less repetitive.
09:24So friends, that's all for today.
09:27We have learned what are emphatic pronouns, and what are possessive pronouns.
09:33Now you may go ahead and take a quiz to learn more.
09:36Bye-bye.