The first one: The catapult stood on a platform in the castles tower before the tower was destroyed.
Answer: Only "She cannot do the work herself" is clearly intensive.
All the others are reflexive. The pronoun serves as a direct object that also refers to (reflects back on) the subject.
Explanation: A possible example for discussion:
The boys bought themselves lunch.
In this sentence, <em>themselves </em>is the indirect object (reflecting the subject) and it serves to mean that the boys bought their own lunch, So reflexive "as-is." If the word is moved to another position in the sentence, it could be intensive.
The boys themselves bought lunch. (Appositive) or The boys bought lunch themselves. In these cases, <em>themselves</em> would be intensive. The meaning changes. Maybe the boys bought lunch for others too. (Surprise! They did it themselves for other people.)
Answer: Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another's suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering. Compassion is not the same as empathy or altruism, though the concepts are related.
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