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Itself cannot be used to emphasize there. Itself is used this way with nouns and pronouns, but there is not a pronoun. It is a pro-locative: what it stands for is not a place but an expression such as...

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Is the emphatic pronoun (itself) felicitous and grammatically used?

"Stay there itself, I'll be there in 10 minutes."Is the emphatic pronoun (itself) in the above structure felicitous and grammatically used?If not, what other word would be appropriate there?Context: My...

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