View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/when-to-use-me-myself-and-i-emma-bryce Me, myself, and I. You may be tempted to use these words interchangeably, because they all refer to the same...
========== Me, myself, and I.You may be tempted to use
these words interchangeablybecause 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.So what does that reveal about
where each word belongs?Let's start with the difference
between subject and object.Imagine the subject
as the actor in a sentenceand the object as the word
that is acted upon."I invited her but she invited me."The object can also be
the object of a preposition."She danced around me,
while he shimmied up to me."In some languages, like Latin and Russian,most nouns have differe...