>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Interesting. I learned it somewhat differently. I learned that myself should only be used if the subject is 'you.' As in:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Correct. The rule of thumb should be that reflexives are used when the subject and object are the same
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>"I xxx myself"
>>>>>>>>>>"He xxx himselft"
>>>>>>>>>>"We xxx ourselves"
>>>>>>>>>>"You xxx yourself"
>>>>>>>>>>"They xxx themselves"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>That should be "He xxxes himself" :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Maybe you couldn't tell from the context, but I was using xxx in the past tense where, as you know, it has an irregular conjugation using the infinitive as the past tense.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The only ones I can think of, right now, are could, should and must, and none of these reflects. I thought XXX, while irregular, was XOX in the past tense, and still had a regular present 1st p sing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Probably one of those spelling differences between English and American.
>>>>>
>>>>>Like "Dive"
>>>>>
>>>>>We say "I dived into the pool" whereas you say "... dove ...". Don't know why this is. Perhaps cos of drive-drove, but there's thrive(d), strive(d), hive(d)
>>>>
>>>>Believe it or not, I say 'dived'. I feed birdseed to doves. I bet it came from 'drive - drove'.
>>>
>>>As I speculated, but there are more regular verbs than this, as I cited.
>>>
>>>My mother to this day still says "squoze" as past tense to squeeze (probably because of "freeze/froze"). That was what i was brought up saying, which I did till I was a teenager and someone laughed at me and pointed out the error. :-)
>>
>>I do have to admit that the two or three times in my life I might ever have used the past tense of 'hive', I would have said 'hove'.
>
>Which, I think is the naut. past tense of "to heave [to]" as in "The ship was hove to in the shallows!"
>
>>
>>And then there are "drink - drank", "sink - sank", "think - thank", "blink - blank", "link - lank"
>
>So what's the past tense of "wink"? :-)
Left it out deliberately. ;)
>
>>
>>You just have to love this language.
>
>"love"? past tense of "live"?
Past tense of 'leave'.
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