Read the sentence. Mariko decided to bake the cake herself. In this sentence, the word "herself” is acting as a(n)

“Herself” emphasizes that Mariko, rather than someone else, baked the cake. It is not needed to complete the sentence’s meaning, so it is an intensive pronoun. A reflexive pronoun would be necessary to refer back to the subject, as in “Mariko baked herself a cake.”

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