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 We cook the dinner ourselves. ourselves is reflexive or emphatic pronoun? if it is emphatic then how is it possible?

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Ourselves in this case is a reflexive pronoun.

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 see when the pronoun is before the verb such as ourselves himself then it is emphasising and when the pronoun is after the verb then it is reflexive pronoun . such as we cook dinner ourselves is a reflesxive as it is after the verb here cook is verb and after that at any position .ok i hope you understood .thanx 

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I THINK ITS REFLEXIVE

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 No , it is not emphatic pronoun. It is a reflexive pronoun.

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Reflexive pronoun
Because ourselves is not after we.
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Ourselves is emphatic pronoun because if ourselves come after we then it is reflexive pronoun. In the sentence ourselves is coming after dinner so it is emphatic pronoun.
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Sorry it is not emphatic pronoun, it is reflexive pronoun.
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