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Ty123 Posted 7 years ago
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Are both okay: why don’t we just go ourselves.

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Why don’t we just go by ourselves.

  

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ty123 Why don’t we just go ourselves. This focuses on the fact that you will go rather than someone else going. ty123 Why don’t we just go by ourselves.

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  • ty123 Why don’t we just go ourselves.
  • This focuses on the fact that you will go rather than someone else going.
  • ty123 Why don’t we just go by ourselves.
  • This focuses on the fact that no one else will go with you.
  • Probably the sentences should have question marks, though it is not impossible to write them without if a true question is not intended by the speaker.
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ty123Why don’t we just go ourselves.

This focuses on the fact that you will go rather than someone else going.

ty123Why don’t we just go by ourselves.

This focuses on the fact that no one else will go with you.

Probably the sentences should have question marks, though it is not impossible to write them withou

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Both are okay and can be used interchangeably, but the tone of the sentence can be slightly different with each.


A: "I wanted us to go to the concert tonight in a big group - it's more fun that way - but Jan, Mike, Jim, and Betty all cancelled out."

B: "Yeah, I wanted to go in a big group too. (But the heck with them,) Why don't we just go ourselves?" (The omitted word "by

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