Question

read the sentence.
the teacher told the children that they themselves must do their laundry.
in the sentence, what is the purpose of the intensive pronoun?
a. to emphasize that the children must do the teacher’s laundry
b. to emphasize that the teacher must tell students to do their laundry
c. to emphasize that the teacher must teach children how to do laundry
d. to emphasize that the children must do their own laundry

Explanation:

An intensive pronoun (here, "themselves") reinforces the subject it refers to, which is "the children" in this sentence. It emphasizes that the children, no one else, are the ones who must complete their own laundry. We eliminate options A, B, and C because they misattribute the action or the subject of the emphasis.

Answer:

D. to emphasize that the children must do their own laundry