Which sentence uses an intensive pronoun correctly? 1. Alma and Jason decorated this amazing cake theirselves.
2. Joel himself ate all the spaghetti before anyone else could have some.
3. Myself cleaned up the mess in the backyard.
4. Luisa saw the actress at the airport and asked herself for an autograph.

2. Joel himself ate all the spaghetti before anyone else could have some.

Explanation:

Intensive pronouns have the same form as reflexive ones (myself, yourself, herself, ourselves etc.) but their meaning is different.

Intensive pronouns only emphasize their antecedent and, truth be told, are not important for the meaning of the sentence; the sentence is perfectly grammatically correct and understandable even if they're left out.

However, the question here is their proper use.

Sentence 1) uses the incorrect form "theirselves" which doesn't exist. Correct form would be "themselves".

Sentence 3) lacks antecedent. "I myself" would be proper intensive pronoun use.

Sentence 4) needs object pronoun "her" because Luisa asked other person for autograph, not herself.

Finally, sentence 2) uses intensive pronoun "himself" correctly. It emphasizes that Joel alone ate all the food and the sentence would be just as reasonable if we left out the pronoun.

which statement best expresses the theme of this short story the value of being confused

me

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