Use an intensive pronoun for emphasis
The idea
An intensive pronoun emphasizes a noun or pronoun; removing it leaves the core sentence complete.
Step by step
- Find the person or people to be emphasized.
- Choose the matching self or selves form.
- Remove that word mentally: the sentence should still work when the pronoun is intensive.
Example
Add emphasis: I ___ checked every label.
Answer
myself
Myself emphasizes I. I checked every label remains complete without it.
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Write We ourselves built it. Compare We saw ourselves in a mirror, where ourselves is needed as the object.
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