Yourselves vs. Yourself: Know the Difference
Yourselves and Yourself Definitions
Yourselves
(reflexive pronoun) Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed).
You shouldn't blame yourselves.
Talk amongst yourselves.
Yourself
(reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).
Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
Yourselves
(emphatic) You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.
You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?
Yourself
You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
Yourself
An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; - used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself.
Of which right now ye han yourselve heard.
If yourselves are old, make it your cause.
Why should you be so cruel to yourself ?
The religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last.
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