Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable pronoun:
They were angry with _______ for their silly mistakes:
A. Ourself
B. Themselves
C. Itself
D. Yourself

Answer 1

Hint: Word that is used in place of a noun is known as pronouns. Pronouns are the subpart of nouns. To avoid any repetition of the noun, pronouns are used. Pronouns are of different forms for the different ways we use them. Pronouns are he, she, they, it, whom, and so forth.

Complete answer:
Pronouns (such as each, few, he, she, I, herself, who, whoever, whose, that, they, etc) are used to avoid the repetition of nouns. for example in a sentence- Rakhi and Leena went to the market. Rakhi and Leena bought some apples. Rakhi and Leena returned home after 8 pm.

In the above sentences nouns 'Rakhi and Leena' are repeated. Hence to avoid this repetition we will use pronouns. On replacing the nouns with pronouns we will write it as:

Rakhi and Leena went to the market. They bought some apples. They home after 8 pm.
In the above sentence, the Proper noun 'Rakhi and Leena' is replaced by the pronoun 'they'.

A reflexive pronoun is a type of pronoun which is used as a direct object referring the same to the subject of the verb.
They were angry with _______ for their silly mistakes
In the given sentence the subject of the verb is 'they' hence the similar reflexive pronoun to the subject is 'themselves'.

The other options are incorrect because they are not similar to the subject. The reflexive pronoun, itself refers to a singular noun.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’

Note:We ever use the reflexive pronouns after the verbs. Also, we must look at the subject before placing the reflexive pronouns. The subject of the verb and the reflexive pronoun remains the same.