----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark A Mandel" <mam at theworld.com> To: "Scott Ingram" <singram at videotron.ca> Cc: "Chris Olson - SunPS" <Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM>; <dragaera at dragaera.info>; <books at bofh.com> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 9:41 AM Subject: Re: More word usage... > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Scott Ingram wrote: > > #So, "I will give the ball to me." is correct. > > Except that it violates the reflexive rule: it should be "I will give > the ball to myself". Take out that confusing issue by changing the > subject and we get a clear example: "They will give the ball to me." > Woops! My shortcomings are showing! Yeah, "myself" makes seems to be the proper word. Thanks! -Scott