As for myself

Point 119 in PRONOUNS/reflexive is defined as:

‘as for myself’ as a discourse marker to introduce or focus on a personal opinion.

FOR EXAMPLE:

As for myself, I have some ideas about where we went wrong this time, and one day I may call on you once more.

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  TechRaptor
16 Dec 2020

A search in iWeb corpus for:

. As for myself *

1 . AS FOR MYSELF , 626
2 . AS FOR MYSELF I 82

*We can see that almost all examples will contain the comma followed by ‘I’.  Further analysis in LancsBox shows the usual auxiliary verbs:

am 120, have 117, was 51, will 45, had 36 etc.

 

 

 

 

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