What’s the difference between a reflexive and intensive pronoun?
There are a few types of pronouns, among other there are reflexive and intensive pronouns. Every website I visit, they give me the same examples.
E.g.
Found on Grammar Monster:
• Reflexive pronouns (e.g., itself, himself)
• Intensive pronouns (e.g., itself, himself)
What is the difference?
Solution 1:
[1] Ed hurt himself.
[2] Ed himself designed the house.
Reflexive pronouns have two main uses:
a complement use where they are obligatory, as in [1], and an emphatic use where they are optional, as in [2].
It's the latter use that is sometimes called 'intensifying'.