Referent. See antecedent. Re exive pronoun. Re exive pronouns direct action back to the sentence subject. They end in “-self” in the singular and selves in the plural: herself “himself,” “itself,” myself oneself (or ones self, ourselves themselves “yourself,” and “yourselves.” Note that there exives are formed from the objective case of the personal pronouns because they always are the object of action re ected back on the subject He shot himself Thus such constructions as “hisself” or “theyself/ves” are in the wrong case and shouldn’t be used (they actually don’t exist except as colloquial or dialect forms). Too often re exives are used when simple objective cases of personal pronouns are enough, particularly when the choice is between “me” and myself Evidently, people think it is less egotistical or more grammatically correct to use “myself” instead of me Or perhaps they are avoiding distinguishing between “/” and “me.” At any rate, such sentences as She gave it to myself are grammatically incorrect and should be avoided. She gave it tome is just fine. It is even worse to use myself as a subject John and myself went to the movies Why not John and I Does the I sound too assertive Are people worried that they should be using me (wrong because it is not used for sentence subjects Whatever the reason, it is simpler, more direct, and clearer just to use the nominative (subjective) case for subjects. Regardless. Use this word and not “irregardless” which adds a negating prefix to a word that already carries the sense of negation in its ending. In fact, irregardless is not a word. Regular verb.Verbs that follow the normal pattern of conjugation are called “regular.” See also irregular verbs.
