'Me' versus 'Myself'

[Tom]

Hi

[Tom]

I think the following are synonymous,

1- Look at you!
2- Look at yourself!

Tom

[Prezbucky]

Except -- and this is really picky -- when one says, "Look at you!" it usually is in a positive fashion, as if to say, "You look marvelous!"

On the other hand, "Look at yourself!" is something one might hear a mother say to a son who's just come in from a muddy rugby game.
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[Alan]

Hi Tom,

Look at you/Look at me/Look at them are all exclamations suggesting that what you or I or they are doing is amazing/unusual. If you are at a circus and you are watching a man trying to control a lion and he is doing amazing things to stop the lion attacking him, you could turn to the person sitting next to you and say: Just look at him! Isn't that fantastic.

Look at yourself means literally go and find a mirror and look at yourself in the mirror.

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[Tamara]

Hi

[Tom]

A lot of thanks everybody.

...but my original question is still unanswered. It's in red.

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

Did you read the usage notes? There are two sets of them in the link I gave you.

To me personally the sentence would indeed sound odd and it would also feel wrong if 'myself' were used instead of 'me'.. But that's due in large part to the fact that I don't use 'myself' that way myself.

Amy

[TPavel]

What is the difference between may and might? Are can be used they interchangeably?

[Pond969]

The two words can be used interchangeably in many cases, but I would say that their respective uses in certain situations might (may) carry subtly different shades of meaning. For instance:

One can say "I may go to the game." or 'I might go to the game'. The former would suggest that the decision is a casual one and neutral in terms of any particular consequences while the latter suggests that the decision requires a little more thought (possibly as though the speaker has some reason to be hesitant about attending the game but is still considering it). Probably, any subtle added meaning along those lines would be indicated orally by the tonal emphasis.

Just a though...

[Alan]

Hi TPavel,

There is a slight difference in may and might and can be found in the degree of possibility when you use these modals/auxiliaries to suggest that possibilty. I may indicates that it is quite possible I might suggests that it isn't so likely as in: I may take the test -it's a possibility I might take the test - it's probable but not very likely.

Then of course may and might can also indicate permission as in: You may (you have my permission) leave early today. When that is changed into indirect speech, we have a sort of 'past' form of 'may', namely 'might'. That sentence in reported/indirect speech becomes: She told me I might leave early.

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