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The proper uses of "myself" and other reflexive pronouns are (1) as an appositive, for intensification, as in "I myself will put him in his place" or "This order came from the Supreme Commander himself" and (2) as a functional reflexive pronoun, i.e., a pronoun in the complete predicate part of a sentence that refers back to the subject, as in, "Since there is no one who will give her a fur coat, she will buy one for herself." Contrast this with, "Since there was no one else to feed the poor child, Mary fed her, despite being short of food herself". In this sentence, the word "her" has the antecedent of "child" (presumably female) but does not refer to Mary, as does the later word "herself."

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