Which term describes pronouns used to intensify another noun or pronoun, often for emphasis?

• A. Intensive Pronoun
• B. Subject Pronoun
• C. Object Pronoun
• D. Feeble

Answer: (A)

Intensive pronouns emphasize a noun or another pronoun and are not required for the sentence to be complete. They add emphasis, making the statement stronger. For example: The mayor herself announced the plan. Here, herself emphasizes the noun mayor, and the sentence would still be grammatical if you remove herself, though it would lose the extra emphasis: The mayor announced the plan.

These pronouns look the same as reflexive pronouns (herself, themselves, etc.), but their job is different. Reflexive pronouns function as the object of a verb or preposition and are often necessary to show that the subject acts on itself. Intensive pronouns, on the other hand, are there only to stress and do not change the core meaning or grammatical structure of the sentence.

In contrast, subject pronouns are used as the subject of a verb, and object pronouns are used as the object of a verb or preposition. Feeble isn’t a term used for pronouns. So the term that describes pronouns used to intensify another noun or pronoun, often for emphasis, is intensive pronoun.