When you is the subject of a verb and refers to one person, you use yourself as the object of the verb or of a preposition in the clause to refer to the same person. ... When you refers to more than one person, you use yourselves as the object of the verb or preposition.
When should you use yourselves?
PronounEdit
- You use yourselves when the people doing an action and receiving an action are both you. Be careful children. ...
- Use for emphasis. ...
- If you do something by yourselves, you do it alone. ...
- If you don't feel yourself, you are different from usual, because you are sick, scared, stressed, etc.
Can you say yourselves?
Yourselves here is OK in colloquial use, but formally incorrect. Reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves) should be used for an object (direct or indirect) which is identical with the subject of the verb.
