Reflexive Pronoun Worksheet | Teach Starter - Free Printable

Explanation:
We need to fill in each blank with the correct reflexive pronoun from the word bank. Reflexive pronouns end in *-self* (singular) or *-selves* (plural), and they refer back to the subject of the sentence.

Let’s go one by one:

1. “I made ________ pancakes for breakfast.”
→ Subject is *I*, so reflexive pronoun is myself.
✔ *I made myself pancakes...*

2. “Don’t run with the scissors. You do not want to cut ________.”
→ Subject is *you* (singular informal), so reflexive pronoun is yourself.
✔ *...cut yourself.*

3. “James and Cooper only think of ________.”
→ Subject is *James and Cooper* = two people → plural → themselves.
✔ *...think of themselves.*

4. “Tucker got out of the pool and dried ________ with a towel.”
→ Subject is *Tucker* (singular, male) → himself.
✔ *...dried himself...*

5. “‘Jim and Joe, you should be ashamed of ________,’ scolded the teacher after they got in a fight.”
→ Subject is *Jim and Joe* = two people → plural → yourselves (because the teacher is speaking *to* them — “you” plural).
Important: Even though the subject of the main clause is *the teacher*, the phrase “you should be ashamed of ________” has *you* as its subject (Jim and Joe are being addressed as *you*). So reflexive must match *you* plural → yourselves.
✔ *...ashamed of yourselves.*

6. “I am considering you for the job. Tell me about ________.”
→ The speaker says “Tell me about ________”, and the person being spoken to is *you* (singular), so reflexive is yourself.
✔ *...about yourself.*

7. “She lives by ________ in the apartments downtown.”
→ Subject is *she*, so reflexive is herself.
✔ *...lives by herself.*

8. “We always behave ________ at school.”
→ Subject is *we* → plural → ourselves.
✔ *...behave ourselves.*

9. “The dog hurt ________ when it jumped off the porch.”
→ Subject is *the dog* (third-person singular, neuter/animal) → use itself.
✔ *...hurt itself.*

10. “Create your own sentence using the pronoun *himself*.”
→ We need to write a sentence where *himself* is used correctly (subject = he, reflexive = himself).
Example: *He cooked dinner for himself.*
(Any correct sentence is fine — but since this is a fill-in, and the instruction says “create your own”, we’ll provide one valid example.)

Now let’s list all answers clearly:

1. myself
2. yourself
3. themselves
4. himself
5. yourselves
6. yourself
7. herself
8. ourselves
9. itself
10. (example) He fixed the bike himself.

Final Answer:
1. myself
2. yourself
3. themselves
4. himself
5. yourselves
6. yourself
7. herself
8. ourselves
9. itself
10. He washed his hands himself.