: Emphatic pronoun question I'm curious as to why an emphatic pronoun isn't set off by commas. For example, "I, myself, completed the puzzle." Thanks!

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Commas are tricky. However what I've learned is to use them where you would pause reading it.

That sentence seems to stop in weird places with the I, myself,.

But I'd reject here on grounds of pure readability, it gets in the way of understanding. You could wait for an award from the grammar police, or get your message across.

I would say that you could think of myself could a reflexive pronouns. I take my understanding of this from French. I myself comb my hair for example.
If the sentence were, I, Ramses, Son of Horus, consort of Ti, and Lord of upper and lower Egypt do proclaim it to be so, I'd agree with you.

It seems that whatever is between the commas should be able to stand as the subject on its own. Myself completed the puzzle would not work.

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