Here’s an extract from an email a Factorial reader sent me about the curiosities of the English language.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time [...]
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Reflexive pronouns are myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
We use a reflexive pronoun when the subject and object are the same person or thing.
I cut myself.
He looked at himself in the mirror.
You can also use a reflexive pronoun occasionally as an intensifier.
I myself hate knitting.
It is incorrect to use a [...]
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