Grammar / Emphatic pronouns
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Pronouns
A few other verbs are always followed by reflexive pronouns with which they form a close sense-unit, e.g. to pride oneself on something, to avail oneself of something.
We also find idiomatic uses of reflexive pronouns in such set phrases as to be myself (himself, etc.) meaning 'to be or behave as before'.
e.g. I'm glad to see that he is himself again.
Besides, there are a few prepositional phrases with reflexive pronouns which are to be treated as set phrases because they have idiomatic meaning.
e.g. Are we actually by ourselves again? ('одни') |
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of himself he was interested, ('наперекор себе', |
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As for myself, I have no complaint to make, ('что касается меня')
I came away and left him to himself, ('оставил его одного') We can drive the car among ourselves, ('вдвоем по очереди')
Emphatic Pronouns
§ 10. Emphatic pronouns have the same forms as reflexive pronouns — they are homonyms. Emphatic pronouns are used for emphasis. They serve as noun pronouns and always perform the function of apposition in the sentence. They can be placed either immediately after their head-word or at the end of the sentence. They are rendered in Russian as сам, сама, само, сами.
e.g. You yourself told them the story. (Or: You told them the sto ry yourself.)
My mother herself opened the door. (Or: My mother opened the door herself.)
We are all queer fish, queerer than we know ourselves. The parting itself was short but it made her ill with grief.
The emphatic pronouns are strongly stressed, but nevertheless they can be omitted without destroying the sense of the sentence.
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§ 12. The pronoun this (these) refers to what is near in space, time or conception (a), that (those) to what is farther off (b).
e.g. a) Do you know these people? This is Harry Field, my coach, and this is Jake Spring, the producer.
Take this pear. It looks very ripe.
"Look at this," he said and showed me his tie.
When he stopped talking, she wondered, "Why is he tell ing me all this?"
"Maybe you don't want to go to this party," he asked hop ing she would say "no".
b) Do you see those houses in the distance? That's where we
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I don't think you should trust the man.
But I'm glad to see you have an interest in sports. That means we have two things in common.
2) This (these) and that (those) are often used with nouns indi cating time. This (these) is used for time which is future or just past. That (those) is used for time which is clearly past.
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