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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Parts of Speech 3. Which of the following sentences correctly uses an intensive pronoun to emphasize the subject?
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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Brought to you by elf hats Yeah they make for
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a festive and fun christmas card with your check as
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long as you take the picture in time Okay Here's
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cities question We took fung sentences correctly uses an intensive
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pronoun to emphasize the subject And here are potential answered
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you already Well it seems like an elf hat might
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be a silly thing to put on a cat dressing
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animals to celebrate christmas is actually a time honored tradition
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going backto when joseph accidentally left his festive santa hat
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on a donkey in bethlehem But back to the question
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once we figure out subject of this sentence will need
- 00:45
to choose the option that really puts that subject center
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stage giving it all the emphasis the production budget tio
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i can afford Well first things first we definitely need
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to figure out the subject of the sentence So let's
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do that All of the sentences are slightly different but
- 00:59
in each one the exact same person is responsible for
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putting the cat hellcats And nobody ate the cat cat
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stand on ly like hats if they get to tear
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Them to pieces The person responsible for putting the hat
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on the cat subject is you How do you sleep
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at night you vile monster Sorry that's The last time
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we got a cat edit our videos anyway It also
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help to know what the intensive pronoun is Well luckily
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since you is already serving as the subject role of
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intensive pronoun falls to the only other pronoun in these
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sentences Humble yourself Now we can get down to brass
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tacks In order to emphasize the subject of this sentence
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We want to put the intensive pronoun right after the
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subject Well in this case we need to say you
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yourself which makes me the correct answer And that's it
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We have our answer And we have this year's christmas
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card so we might need to buy a new camera
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