Fill in the blank with the correct pronoun:
Mihir and I prepared ________ for the Sahyadri trek by climbing the stairs of our building every evening.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → ourselves
Complete sentence: Mihir and I prepared ourselves for the Sahyadri trek by climbing the stairs of our building every evening. Here the subject is “Mihir and I”. Together they make “we”, and they prepared their own bodies for the trek.
| Option | Form and use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) ourselves (answer) | a reflexive pronoun: used when the doer and the receiver of the action are the same | My brother and I taught ourselves to cook dal. |
| (2) us | the object form of “we”, used when the object is not the same as the subject | Our uncle took us to the zoo. |
| (3) myself | goes with “I” alone; the subject here is two people | I hurt myself while playing football. |
| (4) themselves | goes with “they”, for other people; the speaker is one of the doers here | The children dressed themselves for the play. |