2.NonstandardThemselves:"I was telling Bubber how he and my uncles owns the whole place themself"(Carson McCullers). American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publ...
Firstly, they themselves need to be explained; using them for explanatory purposes is simply replacing an unknown with other unknowns. Such words end up obfuscating the target word's definition (Goddard, 2011). Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, such words are language-specific (in this ...
Animagi:Wizardswhocanturnthemselvesintoanimalsat will.Thesingularformisanimals. 阿尼马吉。可以变成动物的巫师。单数形式为阿尼马格斯。 dictsearch.appspot.com 8. Sometimes,thesingularformexpressesthepluralmeaningorthepluralformexpressesthesingularmeaning.
Whenthemselfis being used as a part of a set of pronouns (includingthey,their,andthem) that refer back to nonbinary or gender-nonconforming individual, it is a grammatical option to express reflexive meaning. Neither pluralthemselvesnor genderedhimselforherselfcompletely suffice in this context. The...
That being said, I have seen one difference in the reflexive form. Some people use "themself" instead of "themselves" when talking about a single person, but I don't think any style guides consider this formally correct: "Alex hurt themself" vs "Alex hurt themselves." ...
Because every culture has arguably produced a God created in its own image, it's easy to come to the conclusion that God is a cultural invention. Those who hold to this belief generally refer to themselves as atheists, declaring, just like Marx, that God is an invention of humankind, a...
There are other contexts where the plural verb is more natural: My family are always fighting among themselves. ... Generally, however, in American English, collective nouns take singular verbs. In British English, collective nouns are more often treated as plurals that take plural verbs. 查看翻...
The singular points are on the die; the questions are the dice themselves; the imperative is to throw. I punti singolari sono sul dado, le domande sono i dadi stessi, e l’imperativo è il lancio. Literature That’ll pull the singularity away from the patch, help slow down the ...
That being said, I have seen one difference in the reflexive form. Some people use "themself" instead of "themselves" when talking about a single person, but I don't think any style guides consider this formally correct: "Alex hurt themself" vs "Alex hurt themselves." ...
They arise as the restriction of the standard KP hierarchy to submanifols of finite codimension in the space of independent variables. For higher $\\dbar$-index these hierarchies represent themselves families of multidimensional equations with multidimensional constraints. The $\\dbar$-dressing method...