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What (who) is yourself - definition

PRONOUN THAT IS PRECEDED BY THE NOUN, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB OR PRONOUN TO WHICH IT REFERS

Myself; Yourself; Reflexive case; Herself; Himself; Itself; Yourselves; Reflexive pronouns; About Self; Thyselves; Thysen; Himſelf; Herſelf; Abuse of reflexive; Abuse of Reflexive; Abuse of reflexive pronoun

yourself

(yourselves)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

Note: 'Yourself' is the second person reflexive pronoun.

1.

A speaker or writer uses yourself to refer to the person that they are talking or writing to. Yourself is used when the object of a verb or preposition refers to the same person as the subject of the verb.

Have the courage to be honest with yourself and about yourself...

Your baby depends on you to look after yourself properly while you are pregnant...

Treat yourselves to a glass of wine to help you relax at the end of the day.

PRON: v PRON, prep PRON

2.

You use yourself to emphasize the person that you are referring to.

They mean to share the business between them, after you yourself are gone, Sir...

I've been wondering if you yourselves have any idea why she came.

PRON [emphasis]

3.

You use yourself instead of 'you' for emphasis or in order to be more polite when 'you' is the object of a verb or preposition.

A wealthy man like yourself is bound to make an enemy or two along the way...

by yourself: see by

PRON: v PRON, prep PRON [politeness]

Yourself

·pron An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person;

- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself.

yourself

¦ pronoun [second person singular] (plural yourselves)

1. used as the object of a verb or preposition when this is the same as the subject of the clause and the subject is the person or people being addressed.

2. [emphatic] you personally.

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Reflexive pronoun

A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.

In the English language specifically, a reflexive pronoun will end in -self or -selves, and refer to a previously named noun or pronoun (myself, yourself, ourselves, themselves, etc.). English intensive pronouns, used for emphasis, take the same form.

In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound by its antecedent (see binding). In a general sense, it is a noun phrase that obligatorily gets its meaning from another noun phrase in the sentence. Different languages have different binding domains for reflexive pronouns, according to their structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive pronoun

Examples of use of yourself

1. By all means please enjoy yourself but it is not necessary to drink to enjoy yourself.

2. Adds classmate Nicole Mack: "This school allows you to compare yourself against yourself.

3. "I hope you do yourself a favor and get yourself a trainer and come over to the house there and get yourself some workout every day.

4. "You have no oxygen, you see yourself burning, you see yourself... dead," he said.

5. It‘s a very powerful statement ... about owning yourself and controlling yourself.