English Language & Usage Asked on February 25, 2021
I know we can use an emphatic pronoun after the subject or at the end of the sentence. But I have found some examples from news websites where it has been used after an auxiliary verb and before the main verb. Is it grammatical at all? I haven’t found anything about it in grammar books.
"He said his life was his art, but he didn’t himself believe it."
Intensive pronouns, also called emphatic pronouns, usually come immediately after the noun or pronoun they refer to, or at the end of a sentence.
For example: "He himself didn't believe it." "The doctors explained to the patient themselves."
In the book Hart's Advanced Grammar published in 1898, the author states the following:
The intensive pronoun is always in apposition to the noun just before it, and is employed to make the noun more emphatic.
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The following examples will illustrate: The king himself will come (intensive)... I saw the queen herself (intensive).
Answered by srikavineehari on February 25, 2021
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