Him or herself v. himself or herself? - English Language Usage . . . 11 As others have suggested, himself or herself or him- or herself are possible and acceptable; I feel that him or herself is also fine, and perhaps even better Although, indeed, him (-) or herself looks like illegitimately cutting up a word, this is how I think most people would say it in speech
Usage of he himself - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The boy's innate goodness will withstand the challenges because unless he himself wants to turn evil, [ ] My teacher thinks that commas should set off the word "himself", but I disagree Who is
grammatical number - Why themselves and himself - English Language . . . Your "killed him killed himself" example has an obvious counterexample: "he killed his enemy", which is equally valid and would support the opposite logic Then you say "the idea isn't derived from something belonging to someone", but you don't explain why most of the reflexive pronouns follow a genitive structure, and only a couple don't
Im tired of writing out the phrase himself or herself. What are my . . . There is the informal gender neutral "himself", and the informal singular "themself", and of course there is the more formal "himself or herself" which is both grammatically and politically correct but has the disadvantage of being incredibly annoying to write very quickly
Him Her vs Himself Herself - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The cat washed herself He paid himself a handsome salary That isn't happening in the sentence, where his accomplishments is not the same as the object However, I think we're saved by the fact that the pronoun is contained within a prepositional phrase And here we can use the reflexive pronoun himself
What is the meaning of it insists upon itself when referring the . . . The other users are mentioning the use of the phrase in the context of The Family Guy to tell a joke These answers are correct But "it insists upon itself" does have meaning beyond the joke It's essentially a way of saying "look at me", that the film is self-absorbed and self-conscious, that it doesn't really acknowledge any kind of lightness or irony, or any sense that it's mere