1. Pronouns

2. What are pronouns?
Pronouns are words that take the place of (replace) nouns (and we know a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea).
Erie (noun-place)
There/Here (pronoun to replace the noun Erie)

3. Replacing nouns with pronouns
Ms. A (noun—person)
She/Her (pronouns to replace Ms. A)
Mr. Fries (noun—person)
He/Him (pronouns to replace Mr. Fries)
Friendship is a good thing, it makes us happy.
Friendship is the noun, it is the pronoun that replaces the noun friendship.

4. Reflexive Pronouns
When you add self or selves to a pronoun, it becomes a reflexive/intensive pronoun.
Himself
Herself
Itself
Themselves
Ourselves

5. Using Reflexive Pronouns
I hurt myself when I tried to do a hand stand.
He got himself out of bed when the alarm rang.
She made herself some dinner.
The car seemed to drive itself into that tree!
Michael bought himself a new pair of shoes.
They cooked themselves some dinner.

6. Intensive Pronouns
We can use reflexive pronouns (the ones with the self/selves) to intensify (make stand out) a pronoun. They make the sentence more intense for the reader/listener.
You like the color blue; but, I myself like orange.
Lebron James himself came to our school as a guest speaker.