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REFLEXIVE OR COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS


[Sidenote: _Composed of the personal pronouns with_ -self, -selves.]


94. The REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS, or COMPOUND PERSONAL, as they are also

called, are formed from the personal pronouns by adding the word

_self_, and its plural _selves_.


They are _myself_, (_ourself_), _ourselves_, _yourself_, (_thyself_),

_yourselves_, _himself_, _herself_, _itself_, _themselves_.


Of the two forms in parentheses, the second is the old form of the

second person, used in poetry.


_Ourself_ is used to follow the word _we_ when this represents a

single person, especially in the speech of rulers; as,--


Methinks he seems no better than a girl;

As girls were once, as we _ourself_ have been.--TENNYSON.



[Sidenote: _Origin of these reflexives._]


95. The question might arise, Why are _himself_ and _themselves_ not

_hisself_ and _theirselves_, as in vulgar English, after the analogy

of _myself_, _ourselves_, etc.?


The history of these words shows they are made up of the

dative-objective forms, not the possessive forms, with _self_. In

Middle English the forms _meself_, _theself_, were changed into the

possessive _myself_, _thyself_, and the others were formed by analogy

with these. _Himself_ and _themselves_ are the only ones retaining a

distinct objective form.


In the forms _yourself_ and _yourselves_ we have the possessive _your_

marked as singular as well as plural.





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