Emphatic

+207.+ A compound personal pronoun has also an emphatic use when it

directs especial attention to the noun or pronoun to which it refers.

For example in the sentence, _He did the work himself_, or, _He,

himself, did the work_, _himself_ gives emphasis or intensifies the

meaning of the pronoun _he_.

Remember a compound personal pronoun is correctly used only in these two

ways, reflexive and emphatic. For example, the following sentences are

incorrect:

This is for yourself and your comrade.

Ourselves will find out the reason.

The correct form would be:

This is for you and your comrade.

We, ourselves, will find out the reason.

+208.+ You can readily distinguish between the reflexive and the

emphatic use. In the reflexive, the compound personal pronoun is always

the _object_ of a verb or preposition, and the subject of the sentence

is its antecedent. The subject and the object always refer to the same

thing.

In the emphatic use, the compound personal pronoun is neither the

subject nor the object, but is thrown into the sentence simply to render

it emphatic, and to call special attention to its antecedent.

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