Myself vs Itself - What's the difference?
myself | itself |
(reflexive) Me, as direct or indirect object
*
, title= Personally, for my part; used in apposition to (I), sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
Me (as the object of a verb or preposition).
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 36:
(archaic) I (as the subject of a verb).
*, II.8:
*1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged :
*:Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.
that being which is oneself
(reflexive) it; (A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject)
(emphatic) it;
In reflexive|lang=en terms the difference between myself and itself
is that myself is (reflexive) me, as direct or indirect object while itself is (reflexive) it; (a thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject).As pronouns the difference between myself and itself
is that myself is (reflexive) me, as direct or indirect object while itself is (reflexive) it; (a thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject).As a noun myself
is that being which is oneself.myself
English
Alternative forms
* meself (non-standard) * myselfe (archaic)Pronoun
(en-pron)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself , “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
- Later I realized that the ignorant man that day was not the chief but myself .
- And my selfe have knowen a Gentleman, a chiefe officer of our crowne, that by right and hope of succession (had he lived unto it) was to inherit above fifty thousand crownes a yeere good land.
Usage notes
* Use where I could be used is mostly poetic or archaic, except with a coordinating conjunction, such as (and). * (2009) reports opposition to the intensifier use, especially where (I) could be used. *AP Stylebook Online(2010) reports opposition to the intensifier use as reflexive pronouns (myself) should not be used instead of objective pronouns (me).
See also
(English personal pronouns)Noun
(ourselves)- I am not myself today.
itself
English
Pronoun
- The door closed by itself
- The door itself is quite heavy.