(16)反身代詞(Reflextive Pronouns)
反身代詞雖可用為動詞或介詞的目的語,但不可用為主語:
例:I did it myself.(正)
Myself did it.(誤)(將 myself 改為 I 或在其前加上 I)
反身代詞雖不能為動詞的主語,但可用來加強代詞或名詞的意義。
例:I myself did it.
She is beauty itself.
練習題(27)
下列句子有錯誤者,改正之:
1. Himself and she hurt themselves badly in falling over that rock.
2. You must have seen him;myself saw him distinctly.
3. Bees provide their selves with honey against the winter.
4. He sold umbrella,and has bought his self a new one.
5. The girl is seated in the field:herself brought the chair.
6. They,not himself,paid the penalty of his faults.
7. Both herself and Mary were wandering in the woods.
8. John his self will pay for the book that he lost.
9. Why do they injure their self in that way?
10. War,as himself avowed,was necessary to his hold on France.
11. They dressed them self out in all their best clothes.
12. Jane was waiting for them:himself saw them go in.
13. He never acted thus when himself was in office.
14. That is his book:he paid for it his self.
15. Himself and Smith witnessed it.