When to use "me", "myself" and "I" - Emma Bryce
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Me, myself, and I. You may be tempted to use these words interchangeably, because they all refer to the same thing. But in fact, each one has a specific role in a sentence: ‘I’ is a subject pronoun, ‘me’ is an object pronoun, and ‘myself’ is a reflexive or intensive pronoun. Emma Bryce explains what each role reveals about where each word belongs.
Briefly explain the different grammatical roles that the pronouns 'Me', 'Myself', and 'I' have in a sentence.
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- Educator Emma Bryce
- Animator Henry Chung, Plamen Ananiev, Mark Storer, Hannah de Spon
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