Know your English
Is it OK to say, "You yourself was late..."?
The sentence is ungrammatical, but you may be able to get away with it in a highly informal context. To determine if it is a grammatically correct sentence or not, remove the word "yourself" and see how the remainder of the sentence sounds. Would you accept, "You was late..."? I don't think so. The verb that you need to use is "were". You were late for the meeting. "You yourself were late...". Similarly, "Usha herself was late...", "We ourselves were late....", "They themselves were late....",etc.
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." — Groucho Mark.
Source:
The Hindu daily, Tuesday, November 13, 2001
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