This ultimate guide gives you a detail look at differences and examples of Me vs Myself and how to properly use them to avoid confusion.
The words ‘me’ and ‘myself’ refer to the same person, you. However, these two words are not interchangeable whatsoever. The word ‘me’ is incorrectly used a lot of the time instead of the word ‘myself’.
Me is an objective pronoun which means that it refers to a person speaking in reference to the action of a verb about themselves, and ‘myself’ is a stressed pronoun. Both words are reflective pronouns.
Examples of ‘I’ in Sentences
The pronoun “I” is traditionally before the main verb. “I” is used as subjective pronoun for comparison and When functioning as a predicative nominative a noun or pronoun is used for renaming the sentence’s subject.
For example:
- I ran to the store
- Mike and I drove all night.
- He is taller than I. (for comparison)
- The boy you spoke with is I. (predicative nominative)
Examples of Me in Sentences
The word ‘Me’ is used in a sentence to refer to him or herself. Here are some examples using ‘me’.
- Everyone loves me!
- Do you understand me right now?
- How do you know me?
- They see me as I come and go.
- Look at me.
- Give me a proper answer.
- Quite frankly, I think they’re jealous of me.
Examples of ‘Myself’ in Sentences
The word ‘Myself’ is used in a sentence to refer to him or herself as the object of a verb when he or she is the main subject. Following are some examples using ‘myself’.
- I love myself.
- I couldn’t have done it all by myself.
- I’ll do it myself.
- I don’t need your help, I can do it myself.
- I’ve told myself that a thousand times.
- I treat people the way I want myself to be treated.
- I’ll go by myself.
- I, myself was once a lawyer.
As you can see from the examples above, you cannot interchange the two words – ‘me’ and ‘myself’ it wouldn’t make any sense. If you were to do this, it wouldn’t look right.
For example:
Jack wants to interview myself.
This doesn’t look good or sound correct either. In this situation, you would use the word ‘me’ instead of ‘myself’ because you are referring to yourself as the object of a verb or preposition.
The correct wording would be this:
John wants to interview me.
The easiest way to know if you need to use ‘myself’ is when you are the object and the subject of the sentence.
For example:
I can see myself performing in front of thousands of people one day.
So next time when you are hung up on whether you should use ‘me’ vs ‘myself’, just refer to the above mentioned points.