ABSTRACT

English intensifiers or emphatic reflexives illustrate all the formal characteristics of ordinary reflexive pronouns. Merely judged by appearance, it is impossible to tell one from the other. There are basically eight forms which can be divided into two groups of four: https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">

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a

myself, yourself, ourselves, yourselves

b

himself, herself, itself, themselves