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- grammar - When to use ourselves vs. our self - English Language . . .
"Selves" would be the normally correct usage If you changed the "we" into a singular pronoun (ie everyone) you could use self, but the we and our are plural pronouns By the way, the way you indicated our and self as separate words is somewhat irregular Using our or your self in this way normally emphasizes that the self is representative of
- “Ourself” vs. “Our Self”? - English Language Learners Stack . . .
Neither "ourself" nor "our self", but ourselves Our is the possessive, which comes from the pronoun we It's a rule that the plural of some words ending in f or which have f as penult will be changed to ves It also happens to words such as knife-> knives and wife-> wives
- grammar - Self or Ourselves or Oneself - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Each one of us thinks about ourselves all the time - incorrect, mixed singular plural Each one of us thinks about self all the time - correct but technical or rephrase: We all think about ourselves all of the time - how I would write it
- Ourselves vs us? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
@WS2, "he got it for ourselves" has nothing for "ourselves" to refer back to "My family got it for ourselves" would by considering "my family" to be first-person plural "My family" is a third-person singular phrasing, but of a first-person plural concept, allowing us to switch person –
- ourselves vs us - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
The "subject" that ourselves references is implied in the sentence We could write the idea this way It's also a time for us to relax our mind and discover ourselves when we stroll around unplanned and without any specific purpose
- Ourselves or Us - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
It depends on who is doing the forwarding The pronoun suffixes "self" and "selves" are used when the object is the same as the subject, e g This is subject to a certificate being forwarded by us to ourselves but This is subject to a certificate being forwarded by the customer to us
- personal pronouns - What is the difference between us and ourselves . . .
We did not convince ourselves That is, a better way to express what was intended is Sometimes we look to others to convince us of what we already want to believe The use of the reflexive just muddies the waters I am not saying that the use of “ourselves” is ungrammatical or unidiomatic
- Is using yourselves in this sentence grammatically correct?
Reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves) should be used for an object (direct or indirect) which is identical with the subject of the verb In your sentence, the subject is the dummy adverb pronoun there, so yourselves would be improper here The object should be you
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