Question

Select a suitable pronoun to fill in the blank:
Do you like working with other people or do you prefer working by ____?

Answer 1

Hint: A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun or a noun phrase in a sentence. Pronouns refer to either a previously described noun or a noun that does not need to be called explicitly.
When the subject and object of a verb are the same, we frequently use reflexive pronouns.

Complete answer:
A pronoun is a term that acts as a noun or noun phrase replacement. Pronouns have historically been considered one of the parts of speech, but given the variety of roles they perform across languages, some modern scholars would argue that they do not constitute a single class.
Example: David took me to his concert last night, he sings really well. In this sentence “he” is the pronoun that has replaced the noun “David”.

An anaphoric pronoun that must be coreferential with another nominal within the same clause is known as a reflexive pronoun, or simply a reflexive. A reflexive pronoun in the English language ends in self or selves and refers to a previously called noun or a pronoun (myself, yourself, themselves, etc.). The mode of intensive pronouns in English, which are used for emphasis, is the same.

When the subject and object of a sentence are the same, a reflexive pronoun is usually used. Each personal pronoun (I, you, he, and she, for example) has its own reflexive form:
I — myself, you — yourself/yourselves, he — himself, she — herself, one — yourself, it — itself, we — ourselves, they — themselves.

Since we use a reflexive pronoun when the verb's subject and object are the same person or thing. 'You'
is the subject and object of the verb in the given sentence.
'Yourself' is the reflexive pronoun for the singular second person.
So, the pronoun that will be used in the above sentence is “yourself.”

Thus the correct sentence is ‘Do you like working with other people or do you prefer working by yourself’?

Note: A reflexive pronoun is an anaphor in generative grammar that must be bound by its antecedent (see binding). It is, in general, a noun phrase that must get its meaning from another noun phrase in the sentence. According to their structure, different languages have different binding domains for reflexive pronouns.