Many languages use quite a number of reflexive verbs. While English uses much fewer reflexive verbs, there are some reflexive verbs as well as other uses for reflexive pronouns. This guide to reflexive pronouns and verbs provides information on the three main uses of reflexive pronouns.
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thanks alot for what you provide as lesson information which are worth using in our teaching sessions.keep going…
@ reflexive verbs
How can you be so sure we don’t use as many reflexive verbs in English? You can’t be so sure now.
I mean isn’t ‘concentrate’, and ‘remember’ still reflexive – but, in English, simply without the pronoun, much like a ‘zero’ article. The reflexive can also be a silent or implied pronoun.
’sous-entendu’ just the same way Spanish-speakers needn^t use Subjects.