Grammar

Joseph ACould you please tell me if it is natural to use "themselves" in the following sentence?

It is good English, of its kind—literary. It is British, at least, because an American would say "to the hospital". But no American I know would ever say it that way, using "themselves". They went to the hospital, which defaults to going there for treatme

I'm not sure but, It doesn't sound that natural. Why don't you just say "They go to the hospital."? Or "They go to the hospital by themselves." Or if for some reason, I want to emphasize my saying, I think I can say "They went to the hospital themselves."

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Joseph AThey took themselves to a hospital.

That is fine in American English. It means that the people were well enough, and approved to drive there (and back).

This is not a common situation, though. Usually if you are scheduled for outpatient surgery, even if it requires no anesthesia, the doctors want som

Joseph A

Hello everyone,

Could you please tell me if it is natural to use "themselves" in the following sentence?

They took themselves to hospital.

Regards,

Joseph

THat's fine in BE.

Let's consider the sentence pattern:

Question: How did you get to the hospital?

Answers:

My mother took us.
The #34 bus took us..
A kindly gentleman took us.
A taxi took us.

When the subject and object are the same, we use the reflexive form.

X We took us.

We took ourselves.

Joseph A

Hello everyone,

Could you please tell me if it is natural to use "themselves" in the following sentence?

They took themselves to hospital.

Regards,

Joseph

It's fine.

Found online:

The victim suffered a large cut to his head and took himself to Jewish Hospital.
Chamberlain took himself out of t