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- Im tired of writing out the phrase himself or herself. What are my . . .
There is the informal gender neutral "himself", and the informal singular "themself", and of course there is the more formal "himself or herself" which is both grammatically and politically correct but has the disadvantage of being incredibly annoying to write very quickly
- grammatical number - Why themselves and himself - English Language . . .
Your "killed him killed himself" example has an obvious counterexample: "he killed his enemy", which is equally valid and would support the opposite logic Then you say "the idea isn't derived from something belonging to someone", but you don't explain why most of the reflexive pronouns follow a genitive structure, and only a couple don't
- Is himself in? What does it mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Context - A stranger knocks on your door and asks "Is himself in?" himself, a reflexive pronoun, here seems to be used for a nominative pronoun
- Gender neutral reflexive pronoun — equivalent to himself and herself
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- What is a proper gender-neutral form of himself or herself
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- Him Her vs Himself Herself - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The cat washed herself He paid himself a handsome salary That isn't happening in the sentence, where his accomplishments is not the same as the object However, I think we're saved by the fact that the pronoun is contained within a prepositional phrase And here we can use the reflexive pronoun himself
- Usage of he himself - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The boy's innate goodness will withstand the challenges because unless he himself wants to turn evil, [ ] My teacher thinks that commas should set off the word "himself", but I disagree Who is
- Him or herself v. himself or herself? - English Language Usage . . .
11 As others have suggested, himself or herself or him- or herself are possible and acceptable; I feel that him or herself is also fine, and perhaps even better Although, indeed, him (-) or herself looks like illegitimately cutting up a word, this is how I think most people would say it in speech
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