yourself
Use Yourself in a sentence
pronoun, plural your·selves [-selvz] .
[-selvz] . 2.
3.
Informal. (used in place of you, especially in compound subjects, objects, and complements): Ted and yourself have been elected. We saw your sister and yourself at the game. People like yourselves always feel like that.
4.
(used in absolute constructions): Yourself having so little money, how could they expect you to help?
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(used in place of you after as, than, or but ): scholars as famous as yourselves; a girl no older than yourself.
7.
oneself: The surest way is to do it yourself.
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Yourself
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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| —pron , pl -selves | |
| 1. | a. the reflexive form of you |
| b. (intensifier): you yourself control your destiny | |
| 2. | (preceded by a copula) your normal or usual self: you're not yourself these days |
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