I watched myself in the mirror. Is there an intensive pronoun in the sentence, and, if so, what is its antecedent? Myself is an
intensive pronoun; it is calling attention to the noun mirrors. Myself is an intensive pronoun; I is its antecedent. This is not an intensive pronoun; myself is a reflexive pronoun. Myself is an intensive pronoun; watched is the verb it emphasizes.
Myself is an Intensive Pronoun, In grammar, an antecedent is an expression that gives its meaning to a proform. A proform takes its meaning from its antecedent; e.g., "John arrived late because traffic held him up." The pronoun him refers to and takes its meaning from John, so John is the antecedent of him.
B. Intensive pronouns In this case, the pronoun "himself" is right after the noun, so it is intensive. If the pronoun was after the verb, then it would have been reflexive.
