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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Reflexive intensifier(s)

Help! I see a big difference between the following sentences:

"I myself uncorked the champagne."

or

"I, myself, uncorked the champagne."

It seems to me that only someone with a multiple personality disorder might appropriately employ the first.

The rest of us, alas, refer to only one personality when we say I; consequently, wouldn't most of us use nonrestrictive ",myself,"?

Yet virtually all sources I've studies give examples without the commas. Why?

Does the restrictive/nonrestrictive apply to reflexive intensifers? Can you refer me to some authority?
  

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Anonymous Yet virtually all sources I've studies give examples without the commas. Why? There's no relative clause in your sentence.

— Cool Breeze

  • Anonymous Yet virtually all sources I've studies give examples without the commas.
  • Why?
  • There's no relative clause in your sentence.
  • CB
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AnonymousYet virtually all sources I've studies give examples without the commas. Why?
There's no relative clause in your sentence.

CB
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AnonymousI see a big difference between the following sentences:

"I myself uncorked the champagne."
or
"I, myself, uncorked the champagne."
Hmm. I don't see much difference at all. It is simply customary to omit the commas. There is no deep philosophical reason for doing so.

CJ
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A noun that follows another noun to add information about the first noun is called an appositive. The rule is that an appositive that provides non-essential information is set off by commas, whereas no commas are used when the information is essential.

  • The boy, a teenager, said....
  • The spy James Bond drove....

In the examples, teenager is helpful but not

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