Point 94 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: plural reflexive pronouns after prepositions where the object of the preposition is the same as the subject of the verb. *Note this point is practically already covered in B2 Point 80, and the complexity checker may highlight B2 point 74 for ‘yourselves’ for politeness, also. […]
Point 93 in the category of PRONOUNS / reflexive is defined as singular pronoun ‘itself’ for emphasis. An iWeb search for _nn1 itself: 1 GAME ITSELF 15067 2 LIFE ITSELF 10893 3 CITY ITSELF 7443 4 SYSTEM ITSELF 7390 5 PROCESS ITSELF 7192 6 PRODUCT ITSELF 6909 7 BUILDING ITSELF 5512 8 DEVICE ITSELF 4694 […]
Point 80 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: plural reflexive pronouns for emphasis. Point 83: plural reflexive pronouns to refer to actions where the subject and object of the verb are the same. This overlaps many other reflexive pronoun points and ’emphasis’ is not something corpus searches will do automatically. We can quite […]
Point 77 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: the reflexive pronoun ‘itself’ with ‘by’ to mean alone or without any help. collocates 4 spaces either side of ‘by itself’ in iWeb include: 1 ENOUGH 1922 2 CLASS 1155 3 SUFFICIENT 780 4 STAND 558 1416 5 MULTIPLIED 455 6 STANDS 366 7 MULTIPLY […]
Point 75 in the category of PRONOUNS is defined as: the plural reflexive pronoun ‘yourselves’ for politeness. It is odd that a search for ‘yourselves’ produces no results on the EVP. The singular versions do exist however. yourself pronoun PERSON/PEOPLE ADDRESSED A2 yourself pronoun EMPHASIS B2 yourself pronoun PEOPLE GENERALLY B2 A search for collocations with ‘yourselves’ on iWeb: (does not mean the […]
You should get yourself checked by your doctor. This is an example of the B2 grammar point. point 18 in PASSIVES is defined as: reflexive pronoun with the ‘get’-passive [get] _ppx _vvn 1 GET YOURSELF CHECKED 313 The Indian Express Don’t miss your dental check-ups, here’s why If you get yourself checked at a […]