The role of "I" in English Grammar: "I" stands alone while taking auxiliary verb "am" from the following list - be (am, are, is, was, were, being, been), can, could, dare, do (does, did), have (has, had, having), may, might, must, need, ought, shall, should, will, would. Is it to uphold Egoism?

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That's because its the first person pronoun and has a single predicate. It denotes the self plurality as echoed by many literature maestros like the classical Dante and the contemporary T.S.Eliot's 'The love songs of J. Alfred Prufrock'. It denotes self sufficiency or the stratas of self as manifested...
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That's because its the first person pronoun and has a single predicate. It denotes the self plurality as echoed by many literature maestros like the classical Dante and the contemporary T.S.Eliot's 'The love songs of J. Alfred Prufrock'. It denotes self sufficiency or the stratas of self as manifested in singular pronoun,I. read less
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Ah, you have posed a philosophical question, my friend. Whatever its grammatical connotations, this singular word, "I", has been the cause of much agony to humankind down the ages. Philosophers have invested entire lifetimes dissecting "I" from the concept of "egoism" and studying the latter in minute...
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Ah, you have posed a philosophical question, my friend. Whatever its grammatical connotations, this singular word, "I", has been the cause of much agony to humankind down the ages. Philosophers have invested entire lifetimes dissecting "I" from the concept of "egoism" and studying the latter in minute detail. But all they have managed to come up with are treatises which drove their publishers to poverty, bankruptcy, and suicide. To my humble, overawed mind, it is better to get on with the job of living for a living, and leave profound issues such as these to the more enlightened who surf the stratosphere as a matter of routine. Sanjay Agrawal read less
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Good observation. May be the language makers can better answer this question
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definitely not...
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Just plain syntax
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Let me ask you a question in return....what is "I"?
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It is the "I" of taking ownership
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Atlas Shrugged is first and foremost a brilliant suspense story about a man who said he would stop the motor of the world and did. But the book is much more than a great novel. Integrated into the story is a revolutionary philosophy—a philosophy not for pie-in-the-sky debates or academic word games or...
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Atlas Shrugged is first and foremost a brilliant suspense story about a man who said he would stop the motor of the world and did. But the book is much more than a great novel. Integrated into the story is a revolutionary philosophy—a philosophy not for pie-in-the-sky debates or academic word games or preparing for an “afterlife,” but for understanding reality, achieving values, and living on earth. read less
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its uniqueness! no one can replace you.
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Maybe egoism ! But whose egoism ?
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