English Lesson : Emphatic Pronoun

Emphatic Pronouns

Myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves are all pronouns. They can be either emphatic pronouns or reflexive pronouns.



This page is about their use as emphatic pronouns.

Emphatic Pronouns

When used for emphasis, a word like myself is called an emphatic pronoun.

An emphatic pronoun refers back to another noun or pronoun in the sentence to emphasise it (e.g. show that it is the one doing the action).

Examples:

 She will do it herself.
        
       noun             emphatic pronoun
 
 I heard the lie myself.
   
  pronoun     emphatic pronoun
  
Let's look at the first example again:

 She will do it herself. 
(The waiter won't do it. Her husband won't do it. Her son won't do it. SHE will do it.)

Note: It's not always about people:

 The cat opened the door itself. 

You can test if it's an emphatic pronoun simply by removing it completely and seeing if you get the same effect by emphasising the thing you're trying to emphasise with your voice (shown here in bold and italics).

 SHE will do it.
 I  heard the lie.
 THE CAT opened the door.

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