WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IT AND ITSELF? Share with your friends Share 0 Tanveer Jehan answered this 'It' is a pronoun used for non-living things and 'itself' is a possessive pronoun denoting a non-living thing. 1 View Full Answer Swapneel Mishra answered this It is used to denote whom we cannot denote as male or female.Itself is used to denote to show it had worked on its own. 1 Nithin answered this the difference between it and itself is only self (remove self from itself) 1 Divyanshi Agrawal answered this ''it'' is particularly used for non living things whereas ''itself'' is used for showing possession. 1