“John, Natalie, and myself went for a picnic.” The most common misuse of “myself” and “me” is when there are other subjects in the sentence, as in the case of sentences like this: If it still makes sense, you’ve got it right. To sum up, whenever you’re in doubt, use the this trick of stripping the sentence off of all other subjects and just keep the first person subject. You can omit it and still have a grammatically correct sentence, or you can include it for emphasis. The word “myself” is grammatically redundant here, but it does serve a purpose: it emphasizes that the act of robbery was happening in front of my own two eyes. Let’s see a third example, with the sentence “I myself saw Kathy steal Mario’s lunchbox.” This is so because myself is a reflexive pronoun it reflects the action back to the subject (myself, yourself, himself). It has a cousin, private speech, in which people talk to. We use this when the action described in a sentence is directed back to you. Psychologists use the term inner speech for this phenomenon, in which people talk to themselves silently in their head. This sentence in as example of the reflexive noun usage. In this sentence you cannot apply the tip above. “Tired of waiting for Ben to do it, I did the laundry myself.” The sentence “Me went to see The Lion King last Friday” doesn’t make sense either, as you’ll quickly see. If you’re confused, you can test out whether you’re dealing with a subject by replacing the word with “me” instead. However, in the first example, the phrase “Mary and I” stands in for the single subject in the sentence. “Me” is an object pronoun, part of the phrase “between X and Y” and so not a subject. “Just between you and me, do you think Peter deserved that award?”. “Just between you and myself, do you think Peter deserved that award?” The correct sentence should read as follows: “Mary and I went to see The Lion King last Friday.” It doesn’t sound right in that second sentence, does it? “ Myself went to see The Lion King last Friday.” “Mary and myself went to see The Lion King last Friday.” The best way to figure out whether a sentence calls for “I”, “me” or “myself” is to see whether the sentence works with just the first-person subject case. I myself saw Kathy steal Mario’s lunchbox.

The teacher asked Ben and myself to collaborate on the project I found myself unable to get the teacher’s attention When do you use “I” and when do you use “myself” in a sentence? Can you tell which of the following sentences using “myself” are grammatically correct?

Conversation to myself