Timeline for Ourselves vs us?
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| Nov 22, 2013 at 16:05 | comment | added | mplungjan | I hear themselves and I feel he is excluding himself. | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 15:27 | comment | added | Peter Shor | In the first sentence, I think "themselves" and"itself" are both fine (I'd use "themselves" myself). I just don't somebody to see this answer and think there's a rule against using "themselves". | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 14:37 | comment | added | mplungjan | So you choose "themselves" in the first sentence? I can totally hear "itself" used in that sentence | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 14:08 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Saying that "family" has to be referred to at "it" because it's third person singular is just wrong. Consider "I'm going to see my wife's extended family at its annual reunion this weekend. Most of it hates me." That sounds terrible; it's much better to use their and them. So is there a good reason for saying you have to use itself here? | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 12:42 | history | answered | mplungjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |