Saturday, October 29, 2016

pronouns - If it's "yourself", why isn't it "hisself"?

There seems to be a bit of inconsistency with "-self" pronouns. Some are possessive while others are objective/subjective:




Consider:





  • Yourself

  • Ourselves

  • Itself(?)





vs:





  • Himself

  • Herself

  • Themselves

  • Itself(?)





The first set use the possessive pronoun; the second don't. Why?



Similarly, is "itself" "it"+"-self" or "its"+"-[s]elf"?

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