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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Preposition plus object form

Hi all,


Which of the following is correct, please?

They didn’t take their mountain bikes with them.

They didn’t take their mountain bikes with themselves.


And why, please?

  

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anonymous They didn’t take their mountain bikes with them. This is the correct one.

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  • anonymous They didn’t take their mountain bikes with them.
  • This is the correct one.
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anonymousThey didn’t take their mountain bikes with them.

This is the correct one.

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anonymousThey didn’t take their mountain bikes with them.

them is the correct form. It's not themselves because "take" is a "Carry Verb". There is a small class of verbs which do not take the reflexive construction where it is expected.

For further details see

CJ

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