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Grade 5 Reading & Writing · World 4: Grammar Forge · Level 28
Intensive Pronouns
Use the mayor herself, the team itself for emphasis, and tell them from reflexive pronouns.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 28
- An intensive pronoun adds force. The queen herself opened the gates. It stresses that it was truly the queen.
- Here's the test. Remove it: the queen opened the gates. The sentence still works. So it's intensive.
- A reflexive pronoun looks the same but is needed. Grandma taught herself. Remove it, and the sentence falls apart.
- Words like hisself and theirselves aren't standard. Use himself and themselves.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 5.L.GC.1.42 — Grammar: Use intensive pronouns. (Master)