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Michaelting Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Yourself/yourselves

When would you use the 'yourselves'?
  

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Use to refer to the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of the clause. For example: Help yourselves to refreshments, ladies and gentlemen. John

  • Use to refer to the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of the clause.
  • For example: Help yourselves to refreshments, ladies and gentlemen.
  • John
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Use to refer to the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of the clause.

For example: Help yourselves to refreshments, ladies and gentlemen.

John
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Yourself and yourselves are used with you either as an emphatic pronoun or as a reflexive pronoun. When you is used of one person, yourself is used and when you is used of two or more people, yourselves is used.

You should teach yourself how to behave properly.

Studens, you have to study it by yourselves

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