Posted by pakguru on April 19th, 2018 | 2 responses | grammar, IELTS, menggantungkan diri, pronouns, reflexive pronouns, speaking, vocabulary, writing
Technology makes people rely themselves on instruments.
In this sentence, themselves is described by grammarians as a ‘reflexive pronoun’. Reflexive pronouns are used when the object of a sentence is the same as the subject. For example:
However, verbs like rely and depend, do not require reflexive pronouns:
Returning to our opening example, we need:
Indonesians need to take care when translating “menggantungkan diri pada..”
Many native speakers of English say ‘myself’ when referring to themselves, as the word ‘me ‘ seems far too informal. This is becoming most common. ‘If you can get this to myself by Monday’…
Non native speakers would rarely commit this error
Right. I suppose there’s also the situation where you refer to a person in authority as ‘himself’, either do indicate familiarity or sometimes contempt. “If you can get this to ‘himself’ by Monday..” A slightly different problem to the one illustrated in the post, but ya.. interesting. Thanks for commenting!😊