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Reciprocal Pronouns are a type of Anaphor which can be used to refer to a plural noun phrase mentioned earlier in discourse. Plural noun phrases provide a particularly rich territory because they have an anaphoric element all to themselves unlike singular noun phrases, which is why we use reciprocals to refer to them. The reciprocal pronouns known in English are one another and each other, and they belong to the category of anaphors along with Reflexive Pronouns (myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves). Reciprocal Pronouns are used to refer back to plural noun phrase antecedents (such as we, you, they, the dogs, the team, etc.), and when used, they indicate a reciprocal relationship between the individuals who are being referred to. This means the action being completed by those individual nouns is being completed towards another one of those individual nouns in that same plural noun phrase.

For Example:

The boys slapped each other.

The reciprocal scenario for this sentence would be that each boy (an individual noun, boy, in the plural noun phrase, boys) performed the action of the verb "slap" toward some other boy (in that same plural noun phrase boys). For example, if the group of boys consisted of a boy named Dave, a boy named Tom and a boy named Bill, we could say that when they slapped each other, Dave slapped Tom, Tom slapped Bill and Bill slapped Dave.