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Narrator: Today's word is "Yourselves" — pronoun, pronounced /jɔːˈselvz/, with the stress on "selves".
Narrator: Yourselves is the reflexive pronoun for two or more people, when the action returns to them.
Narrator: In plain English, it means you all, yourselves.
Narrator: It joins your with selves, the plural of self.
Narrator: A common collocation is "enjoy yourselves", which describes wishing a group a good time.
Narrator: It differs from "yourself", because yourselves is only for more than one person.
Narrator: In a second sense, "among yourselves" means within the group.
Narrator: Teaching, events and everyday speech all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: yourselves is yourself for a crowd.
Speaker A: What did the teacher say before the trip?
Speaker B: "Enjoy YOURSELVES!" Your plus selves.
Speaker A: To the whole class?
Speaker B: All thirty of us.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Help yourselves to drinks", parties. "Behave yourselves", parents. "Discuss it among yourselves", teachers.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Do not write "yourselfs"; the plural is yourselves.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Yourself is its cousin, themselves its twin, and all of you an alternative — yet yourselves keeps its group charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "yourselves" in AI prompts — useful for event messages and teaching.
Speaker A: How for events?
Speaker B: Welcome groups.
Prompt: Write a welcome speech inviting guests to help yourselves to the buffet.
Speaker A: And teaching?
Speaker B: Group tasks.
Prompt: Write instructions telling pupils to organise yourselves into teams of four.
Speaker A: Could it help grammar?
Speaker B: Yes, for exercises.
Prompt: Create exercises on yourself versus yourselves.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Emails.
Prompt: Write a team email asking everyone to introduce yourselves in the channel.
Yourselves — meaning in Arabic & definition More Y courses GL Dictionary