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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Itself
Hi.
May I omit itself at the end of:
"An additional impediment to treatment are the noncompliant behaviors that typify the disorder itself."
(from http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=2&page=558&journalID=21 )
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Thanks in advance
May I omit itself at the end of:
"An additional impediment to treatment are the noncompliant behaviors that typify the disorder itself."
(from http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=2&page=558&journalID=21 )
?
Thanks in advance
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The basic meaning will not be affected if you omit the reflexive pronoun, but the writer has placed it there for emphasis and/or clarity. Presumably, surrounding text suggested to him that he needed to do so.
- The basic meaning will not be affected if you omit the reflexive pronoun, but the writer has placed it there for emphasis and/or clarity.
- Presumably, surrounding text suggested to him that he needed to do so.
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The basic meaning will not be affected if you omit the reflexive pronoun, but the writer has placed it there for emphasis and/or clarity. Presumably, surrounding text suggested to him that he needed to do so.
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