Intensive Pronouns Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

This Intensive Pronouns worksheet collection helps students build a clear and confident understanding of how intensive pronouns function in English. Through activities involving identification, insertion, rewriting, matching, editing, and extended writing, learners explore the role of intensive pronouns as tools for emphasis rather than essential grammatical elements. The worksheets scaffold skills from simple recognition to more advanced applications, giving students multiple opportunities to practice within sentences, paragraphs, and original writing.

As students work through the collection, they learn to distinguish intensive pronouns from reflexive pronouns, match pronouns to their antecedents, and revise writing to adjust tone and emphasis. The activities support strong foundational grammar skills while encouraging creativity and expressive writing. By repeatedly analyzing how emphasis shifts meaning and voice, students deepen their overall understanding of sentence structure and effective communication.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

Underline the Intensive
Students underline the intensive pronoun in each sentence, strengthening their ability to distinguish intensives from reflexives. They test whether the highlighted pronoun is essential for meaning or simply adds emphasis. The activity reinforces sentence structure awareness and builds accuracy in pronoun identification. Learners become familiar with common forms such as himself, yourself, and themselves, improving both grammar comprehension and reading skills.

Intense Inserts
Learners complete sentences by selecting the correct intensive pronoun from a list. The task reinforces pronoun-antecedent agreement and emphasizes how intensives strengthen meaning without altering grammatical correctness. Students gain practice choosing pronouns that fit tone and intent. This activity supports writing skills by showing how emphasis can shift voice and clarity.

Rewrite with Emphasis
Students rewrite sentences to include an appropriate intensive pronoun, enhancing tone and expression. The worksheet teaches learners to position intensives correctly within the sentence. It encourages flexible sentence construction and helps students understand how added emphasis changes meaning. This task also strengthens revision skills and deepens awareness of grammar patterns.

Emphatic Connections
Students match sentences with the most suitable intensive pronoun. They analyze each sentence to determine which pronoun best emphasizes the subject or object. This matching format supports comprehension and reinforces proper pronoun-antecedent relationships. Learners build confidence recognizing how intensives enhance expression in context.

Reflexive vs. Emphasis
In this worksheet, students determine whether a bolded pronoun functions as an intensive pronoun or as a reflexive pronoun. They evaluate whether the sentence remains meaningful without the pronoun. This comparison strengthens students' ability to differentiate two commonly confused forms. It also improves close reading and grammar analysis.

Emphasis-Adding
Students correct sentences containing misplaced or incorrect intensive pronouns. They rewrite each sentence so that the emphasis is clear and grammatically correct. The activity helps learners identify when a reflexive pronoun should be used instead and when an intensive pronoun is appropriate. Through revision, students strengthen editing and problem-solving skills.

Intensify the Sentence
Learners take grammatically correct sentences and revise them by adding an intensive pronoun for greater emphasis. Students decide which form fits best and where to place it within the sentence. This activity promotes expressive writing and supports understanding of nuance and tone. It also reinforces correct grammar through structured rewriting practice.

Pronouns of Emphasis
Students determine whether the underlined pronoun in each sentence is being used as an intensive pronoun or not. They mark each example accordingly, applying reasoning about sentence meaning and structure. This task builds analytical reading skills and strengthens understanding of emphasis within written language. It also helps students distinguish intensives from other pronoun functions.

Intensify the Paragraph
Learners revise short paragraphs by inserting intensive pronouns where appropriate. This extended writing activity teaches students to use emphasis strategically rather than excessively. They practice editing for tone, style, and clarity while maintaining grammatical accuracy. The worksheet strengthens writing development and encourages thoughtful revision.

Reflexive Swap
Students replace repeated nouns with the appropriate intensive pronoun to avoid redundancy. This task highlights how intensives improve sentence efficiency and expression. Learners analyze context to select the correct form and rewrite the sentence smoothly. The activity supports editing fluency and reinforces the purpose of intensive pronouns in concise writing.

Your Own Reinforcing
In this open-ended worksheet, students write original sentences using intensive pronouns from a provided list. They must ensure each sentence remains grammatically correct even without the intensive pronoun, reinforcing the concept of optional emphasis. This creative task encourages independent application and strengthens grammar mastery. Students build confidence generating their own examples.

Story with Strength
Students write a short story or paragraph that includes at least five intensive pronouns. A model paragraph guides them in using intensives effectively for emphasis rather than reflexive meaning. This activity blends narrative writing with applied grammar practice. By creating their own stories and highlighting the pronouns afterward, students reinforce identification, usage, voice, and stylistic control.