Tham khảo tài liệu 'tìm hiểu nghĩa của từ1', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | hysterical hilarious HYSTERICAL HILARIOUS People say of a bit of humor or a comical situation that it was hysterical shorthand for hysterically funny meaning hilarious. But when you speak of a man being hysterical it means he is having a fit of hysteria and that may not be funny at all. List of errors file C Temp livres commonerrors errors 09 2005 15 38 22 I me myself I ME MYSELF In the old days when people studied traditional grammar we could simply say The first person singular pronoun is I when it s a subject and me when it s an object but now few people know what that means. Let s see if we can apply some common sense here. The misuse of I and myself for me is caused by nervousness about me. Educated people know that Jim and me is goin down to slop the hogs is not elegant speech not correct. It should be Jim and I because if I were slopping the hogs alone I would never say Me is going. . . . So far so good. But the notion that there is something wrong with me leads people to overcorrect and avoid it where it is perfectly appropriate. People will say The document had to be signed by both Susan and I when the correct statement would be The document had to be signed by both Susan and me. Trying even harder to avoid the lowly me many people will substitute myself as in The suspect uttered epithets at Officer O Leary and myself. Myself is no better than I as an object. Myself is not a sort of allpurpose intensive form of me or I. Use myself only when you have used I earlier in the same sentence I am not particularly fond of goat cheese myself. I kept half the loot for myself. All this confusion can easily be avoided if you just remove the second party from the sentences where you feel tempted to use myself as an object or feel nervous about me. You wouldn t say The IRS sent the refund check to I so you shouldn t say The IRS sent the refund check to my wife and I either. And you shouldn t say to my wife and myself. The only correct way to say this .
