• She looked at herself in the mirror.
- Here, 'herself' is a- ক) Reflexive pronoun
• Reflexive pronoun:
- যে সকল pronoun, personal pronoun এর সাথে self/selves যোগে গঠিত হয় সেগুলোকে Reflexive pronoun বলে।
- কতিপয় Reflexive pronoun হচ্ছে - myself, ourselves, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, etc.
• Pronoun:
- Pronoun হলো noun এর পরিবর্তে ব্যবহৃত word. এ কারণে Pronoun কে Substituting word বলে।
- Example: He, She, We, They, I, etc.
• Pronoun সাধারণত ৮ প্রকার। যথা:
1. Personal Pronoun: I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours, you, thee, your, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers. it, its, they, them, their, theirs.
2. Reflexive Pronoun: myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, themselves, etc.
3. Demonstrative Pronoun: this, these, that, those, so, such, the same, etc.
4. Indefinite Pronoun: one, any, some, many, all, few, several, no one, everyone, none, someone, nobody, anybody, somebody, another, nothing, etc.
5. Interrogative Pronoun: what, which, who, whom, whose, etc.
6. Relative Pronoun: what, which, who, whom, whose, that, as, but, whoever, whomever, whatever, etc.
7. Distributive Pronoun: each, either, neither, etc.
8. Reciprocal Pronoun: Each other, One another.
Source: A Passage To The English Language S M Zakir Hussain.