People who don't know how to properly use "myself" are the worst. It does not make you sound smarter when misused. Myself is NOT an automatic, high-brow pronoun substitute; it* should never be any part of a sentence's subject, only as an object.
You never tell someone "Myself went to the store". [Hopefully you don't...] So why attempt saying "Alex and myself went to the store"?
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| My face when people misuse the word "myself". |
"Alex and I went to the store."
"Myself" should strictly be used to indicate, confirm or emphasize that you completed something solo.
The word is indeed a pronoun, but almost used as an adverb.
"I went to the store by myself."
Or
"Yes, I - myself - am the sole survivor!"
*Himself, herself, yourself, themselves and ourselves can fall into the same category, dependent on the subject of course.
