[ongetz]

Thanks for that answer! but I guess them can never be the shorter form of themselves because they're two different words with different functions as well. Themselves is a reflexive pronoun while them is a personal object pronoun.. If you don't mind, Could you pls. give me more concrete explanations??pls..... These sentences were taken from a very reliable source of English test..I think they could not just make mistakes for writing these sentences..I think there is something behind these sentces that need to be discovered..