Reflexive pronoun

Reflexive pronouns are treated in the AWE database as a subset of of personal pronouns. (Some other writers treat them as a separate type of pronoun. Reflexive pronouns are the words we use to refer back to a noun or pronoun previously mentioned in the sentence. If we say “John hit him”, we presume that the victim of the assault was a second person, other than John. If, on the other hand, we say “John hit himself”, we presume that he has had an accident. Singular reflexive pronouns end in –self, like myself, herself and itself; plural ones, like themselves, yourselves and ourselves end in -selves. These suffixes are added to the relevant personal pronoun in either the objective (him- and them-) or possessive forms (my-, your- and our-). Two (it- and her- are ambiguous. Note that it is regarded as a mistake in formal English to say 'theirselves' or 'hisself', though both are normal in some dialects of spoken British English.