intensive pronoun

English

Examples

As an adverbial adjunct:

  • No, I don't need my parents to drive me home. I'll walk home myself.

As an adnominal adjunct:

  • The solution to the problem is simplicitiy itself!
  • We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
  • The president knew that if Earth did not expel the alien invaders, humans themselves would bear the blame in interplanetary court for inviting them in.

Noun

intensive pronoun (plural intensive pronouns)

  1. (grammar) A pronoun used to emphasize some other nominal element in its clause:
    1. To emphasize a preceding noun or another pronoun, as an adverbial adjunct
    2. In apposition with a noun or pronoun, as an adnominal adjunct

Hypernyms

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