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Reflexive

Any construction which indicates that two noun phrases in a sentence refer to the same person(s) or thing(s).

In English, a reflexive sentence contains a reflexive pronoun. Examples are: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves and yourselves.

• I cut myself shaving this morning.
• Alice doesn’t know what to do with herself.
• Peter saw himself in the mirror.