- And you? or And yourself? as response to How are you?
And yourself?" 'Yourself' sounds more formal, and is used frequently in everyday language (at least in my surroundings) However, I've been doing a little bit of investigation into the use of my vs myself and you vs yourself and it seems that it is only used reflexively to reflect back to 'you' or 'me' as the subject E g , you hurt yourself
- pronouns - When is it correct to use yourself and myself (versus . . .
15 Using "yourself" and "ourselves" in these contexts is incorrect "Yourself," "ourselves," and "myself" are reflexive pronouns, correctly used when the subject actor of the sentence and the object recipient are the same person or group "I see myself" is correct because I am doing the seeing and am seeing myself
- You or Yourself? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
You use yourself as the object to refer to the second person (you) when the subject already contains the second person (you) Examples: You see yourself as an artist Consider yourself lucky Imperatives always have the implied subject, you Based on that information, the following sentence would be the better choice: What is a nice, smart girl like you hanging around them for?
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- pronouns - Yourself vs By yourself On your own - English Language . . .
Yourself stresses that YOU (personally), as opposed to others, can be the agent of that choice By yourself on your own stresses more that you make this choice alone, without help from others So although the meanings may slightly overlap, the terms are not interchangeable Your sentence is about receiving a given topic as opposed to the possibility to choose that topic personally (the idea
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