Intensive pronoun
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intensive-pronoun-188-1648025
title:
Intensive pronoun
text:
An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a statement; for example, "I did it myself." While English intensive pronouns use the same form as reflexive pronouns, an intensive pronoun is different from a reflexive pronoun because it functions as an adverbial or adnominal modifier, not as an argument of a verb. Both intensive and reflexive pronouns make reference to an antecedent. For example, compare "I will do it myself," where "myself" is a self-intensifier indicating that nobody else did it, to "I
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encyclopedia
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Type of pronoun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_pronoun
date created:
2006-08-28T01:16:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T19:45:38Z
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