Your "killed him/killed himself" example has an obvious counterexample: "he killed his enemy", which is equally valid and would support the opposite logic. Then you say "the idea isn't …

2010年10月19日 · The boy's innate goodness will withstand the challenges because unless he himself wants to turn evil, [...]. My teacher thinks that commas should set off the word …

How would you refer to a gender neutral subject with a reflexive pronoun? It is unbelievable how a perpetrator will cast oneself in the role of victim. That does not seem right. Is there a bet...

2015年1月7日 · There is the informal gender neutral "himself", and the informal singular "themself", and of course there is the more formal "himself or herself" which is both …

2014年10月29日 · Context - A stranger knocks on your door and asks "Is himself in?" himself, a reflexive pronoun, here seems to be used for a nominative pronoun.

As others have suggested, himself or herself or him- or herself are possible and acceptable; I feel that him or herself is also fine, and perhaps even better.

2015年2月24日 · Instead of referring repeatedly to some male or female subject pronoun, you can use they/themselves to avoid emphasizing one gender or overloading the text with he/she, …

What JLG said. Personally, I think themself/themselves is more common today than it ever was. It used to be a somewhat "dialectal/informal" usage, but its PC gender-neutral qualities are …

2020年12月7日 · It's "themselves" unless you want to say "himself or herself" every time. A side note: Although this is how I reference and understand referenced a person of unknown …

The cat washed herself. He paid himself a handsome salary. That isn't happening in the sentence, where his accomplishments is not the same as the object. However, I think we're saved by the …