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Contiluo Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Whys and wherefores

Please check out the following sentence.

We look into the whys and wherefores / ground and get a conclusion:our society and citizens don’t know how to respect.



  

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We look into the whys and wherefores / grounds and come to a conclusion: we don't know how to respect themselves or others.

— Mister Micawber

  • We look into the whys and wherefores / grounds and come to a conclusion: we don't know how to respect themselves or others.
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We look into the whys and wherefores / grounds and come to a conclusion:we don't know how to respect themselves or others.
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I am confused by the reflexive pronoun here:

"we don't know how to respect themselves or others."

Is it should be "ourselves"?
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Hi,
Please check out the following sentence.

We look into the whys and wherefores / ground and get a conclusion:our society and citizens don’t know how to respect.

It's not a good sentence. Here are a few comments.


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Sorry, contiluo - my mistake. It should read:

we don't know how to respect ourselves or others.
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