Specific use of reflexive pronouns


Enjoy, apply, resign, acquit, drive, exert, avail, pride, absent, etc., when used as transitive verbs,
always take a reflexive pronoun after them. When ‘self’ is added to ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘him’, ‘her’, and
‘it’, and ‘selves’ to our and them – they are known as reflexive pronouns. For Example :
He absented from the meeting.
He absented himself from the meeting

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