Know Your English (Aug 2001)

Know your English

Is it OK to say, "Myself Subh Karan"?

There is a tendency among Indians to say "Myself Ram" or "Myself Krishna". The word "myself", "himself", "herself", etc should not come at the beginning of a sentence. You generally use these words when you have "I", "him", and "her" at the beginning of a sentence. For example.
*I made the pizza myself.
*She did the assignment herself.
*The young man washed himself.
*It would be ungrammatical to say: Myself made the pizza. / Herself did the assignment.

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Source:
The Hindu daily, Tuesday, August 21, 2001