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What (who) is itself - definition

PRONOUN THAT IS PRECEDED BY THE NOUN, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB OR PRONOUN TO WHICH IT REFERS

Myself; Yourself; Reflexive case; Herself; Himself; Itself; Yourselves; Reflexive pronouns; About Self; Thyselves; Thysen; Himſelf; Herſelf; Abuse of reflexive; Abuse of Reflexive; Abuse of reflexive pronoun

itself

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

Itself is used as the object of a verb or preposition when it refers to something that is the same thing as the subject of the verb.

Scientists have discovered remarkable new evidence showing how the body rebuilds itself while we sleep...

Unemployment does not correct itself.

PRON: v PRON, prep PRON

2.

You use itself to emphasize the thing you are referring to.

I think life itself is a learning process...

The involvement of the foreign ministers was itself a sign of progress...

PRON [emphasis]

3.

If you say that someone is, for example, politeness itself or kindness itself, you are emphasizing they are extremely polite or extremely kind.

I was never really happy there, although the people were kindness itself...

PRON: n PRON [emphasis]

4.

an end in itself: see end

Itself

·pron The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself.

itself

¦ pronoun [third person singular]

1. [reflexive] used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a thing or animal previously mentioned as the subject of the clause.

2. [emphatic] used to emphasize a particular thing or animal mentioned.

used to emphasize what a perfect example of a particular quality someone or something is.

Phrases

in itself viewed in its essential qualities.

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Reflexive pronoun

A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.

In the English language specifically, a reflexive pronoun will end in -self or -selves, and refer to a previously named noun or pronoun (myself, yourself, ourselves, themselves, etc.). English intensive pronouns, used for emphasis, take the same form.

In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound by its antecedent (see binding). In a general sense, it is a noun phrase that obligatorily gets its meaning from another noun phrase in the sentence. Different languages have different binding domains for reflexive pronouns, according to their structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive pronoun

Examples of use of itself

1. And that is have a country which can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself.

2. Our strategic goal is a country which can defend itself, sustain itself and govern itself.

3. We both want Iraq to be able to govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself.

4. And that is a country that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself.

5. "Jerusalem doesn‘t have to reinvent itself, but uncover itself.