Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate pronoun:
I enjoyed ____________.

a) myself
 b)yourself
 c)themselves
 d)ourself

Answer 1

Hint: A reflexive pronoun is a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent. Example- himself.

Complete answer:
In the given question, the sentence is in the first person since the subject is ‘I’.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:
Option (a.), 'myself', refers to - Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
Therefore, option (a.) is correct as ‘myself’ is a reflexive pronoun in the first person.

Option (b.), ‘yourself', refers to - (reflexive) Your own self.
Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as ‘yourself’ is a reflexive pronoun in the second person.

Option (c.), ‘themselves', refers to - (the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun) The people previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition, where the people are also the subject of the verb; also used for emphasis.
Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as it is in the third person and not first person.

Option (d.), ‘ourself', - the reflexive case of ‘we’ is ourselves normally.
Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as it is not the reflexive pronoun of ‘I’.

Note: In this question, you need to also remember the persons of a sentence.
First-person- pronouns, and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur.
Second person- pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur.
Third-person- pronouns, and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur.