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Matthew.90 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

As a valuable one

Which one is correct?

Probably, everybody thinks of themself as a valuable one.

or 

Probably, everybody thinks of themself valuable one.
  

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90.... Probably, everybody thinks of theirself as being valuable. Probably, everybody considers theirself valuable.

— Canadian45

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Matthew.90....Probably, everybody thinks of theirself as being valuable.
Probably, everybody considers theirself valuable.
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themselves (or himself)
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Aspara Gusthemselves (or himself)
Actually, I think it should be 'theirself''. But I'm not sure.
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canadian45Actually, I think it should be 'theirself''.
No, that is not a standard pronoun.
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Aspara Guscanadian45Actually, I think it should be 'theirself''.No, that is not a standard pronoun.
That's true, and "themself" is also not standard. But Dictionary.com seems to give more credence to "theirself" than to "themself".
http://dictionary.reference.com/br
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What I mean is that I think "theirself" should be a standard pronoun, as it seems to be the correct choice here. And Dictionary.com does give it some degree of acceptance.
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canadian45What do you think, and which one would you choose?
Being the pedant that I am, I would use himself because everybody is singular. However, themselves is an equally acceptable alternative, outside formal writing, If you don’t like themselves and you want to be tact, you could say him- or herself.
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Aspara Guscanadian45What do you think, and which one would you choose?Being the pedant that I am, I would use himself because everybody is singular. However, themselves is an equally acceptable alternative, outside formal writing, Again, each one of those choices has a flaw.
If you don’t like themselves and you want to be tact, yo
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Everybody thinks of ... as being valuable.

1. Himself - Generally regarded as correct until recent years. Now rejected by many as being sexist.
2. Himself/herself. - Correct, but rather clunky.
3. Themselves - Generally regarded as substandard until recent years. Now increasingly accepted.
4. Themself - Generally still regarded as incorrect,
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Aspara GusWell, it isn’t, and it probably never will be. It doesn’t make any sense to use -self, which is singular, with their or them, which is plural.
Hello.

In that context, and to my understanding, their and them merely refer to the two possible genders, male and female, and do not indicate plurality. Every body in e
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