Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate pronoun :
My son and my daughter are very fond of ________.

• A. herself
• B. each other
• C. themselves
• D. himself

Answer 1

The correct option is B each other

A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ). In the options given:

"Herself", "Themselves" and "Himself" are reflexive pronoun. Reflexive pronouns are words ending in -self or -selves that are used when the subject and the object of a sentence are the same (e.g., I believe in myself). This is a wrong choice.

"Each other" is a reciprocal pronoun. We use the reciprocal We use the reciprocal pronouns "each other" and one another when two or more people do the same thing. Traditionally, each other refers to two people and one another refers to more than two people, but this distinction is disappearing in modern English. In this sentence, two persons are present which makes option B correct.

Option B is correct.